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Item Details
Title:
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CHILD SLAVES IN THE MODERN WORLD
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By: |
Gwyn Campbell (Editor), Suzanne Miers (Editor), Joseph C. Miller (Editor) |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£69.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0821419587 |
ISBN 13: |
9780821419588 |
Publisher: |
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
22 August, 2011 |
Pages: |
228 |
Description: |
Examines the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book adds historical depth to the literature on contemporary slavery, emphasizing the vulnerabilities of children, or effective equivalents, that made them particularly valuable to those who could acquire and control them. |
Synopsis: |
Child Slaves in the Modern World is the second of two volumes that examine the distinctive uses and experiences of children in slavery in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of previously unpublished essays exposes the global victimization of child slaves from the period of abolition of legal slavery in the nineteenth century to the human rights era of the twentieth century. It contributes to the growing recognition that the stereotypical bonded male slave was in fact a rarity. Nine of the studies are historical, with five located in Africa and three covering Latin America from the British Caribbean to Chile. One study follows the children liberated in the famous Amistad incident (1843). The remaining essays cover contemporary forms of child slavery, from prostitution to labor to forced soldiering. Child Slaves in the Modern World adds historical depth to the current literature on contemporary slavery, emphasizing the distinctive vulnerabilities of children, or effective equivalents, that made them particularly valuable to those who could acquire and control them.The studies also make clear the complexities of attempting to legislate or decree regulations limiting practices that appear to have been-and continue to be -ubiquitous around the world. |
Illustrations: |
illus. |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Ohio University Press |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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