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Subject(s)

• Enslaved children—United States—History [Browse]
• Slavery—United States—History [Browse]

Editor

• Duane, Anna Mae, 1968- [Browse]

Series

Slaveries since emancipation [More in this series]

Summary note

"If we are to fully understand how slavery survived legal abolition, we must grapple with the work that abolition has left undone, and dismantle the structures that abolition has left in place. Child Slavery before and after Emancipation seeks to enable a vital conversation between historical and modern slavery studies - two fields that have traditionally run along parallel tracks rather than in relation to one another. In this collection, Anna Mae Duane and her interdisciplinary group of contributors seek to build historical and contemporary bridges between race-based chattel slavery and other forms of forced child labor, offering a series of case studies that illuminate the varied roles of enslaved children. Duane provides a provocative, historically grounded set of inquiries that suggest how attending to child slaves can help to better define both slavery and freedom."--Publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: when is a child a slave? / Anna Mae Duane
• Part I: Introduction. The child as gift: the logic of the peculium in perpetuating logics of enslavement / Anna Mae Duane
• 1. 'Remember, dear, when the Yankees came through here I was only ten years old': valuing the enslaved child of the WPA slave narratives / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
• 2. The slave child as 'gift': involutions of proprietary and familial relations in the slaveholding household before emancipation / Sarah Winter
• Part II: Introduction. The public's claim to the private child: slaveries defined by a child's value / Anna Mae Duane
• 3. The white slave: American girlhood, race, and memory at the turn of the century / Micki McElya
• 4. Child's play: schools not jails / Erica Meiners
• 5. Born free in the master's house: children and gradual emancipation in the early American North / Sarah L.H. Gronningsater
• Part III: Introduction. The child as a pivot point between consent and complicity / Anna Mae Duane
• 6. Protecting the young and the innocent: age and consent in the enforcement of the White Slave Traffic Act / Jessica R. Pliley
• 7. Slavery and the recruitment of child soldiers / David M. Rosen
• 8. Notions of African childhood in abolitionist discourses: colonial and post-colonial humanitarianism in the fight against child slavery / Audra A. Diptee
• Part IV: Introduction. Children's voices, children's freedom / Anna Mae Duane
• 9. 'If I got a chance to talk to the world': voice, agency, and claiming rights in narratives of contemporary child slavery / Kelli Lyon Johnson
• 10. 'When I play with the master's children, I must always let them win': child domestic labor / Jonathan Blagbrough and Gary Craig
• 11. The global human rights of modern child slaves / John Wall.

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ISBN

• 9781107127562 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 1107127564 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 9781107566705 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
• 1107566703 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016041125

OCLC

965120495

Other standard number

• 40027046516

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