Children in slavery through the ages /

Children in slavery through the ages /

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Imprint:Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, [2009]
©2009.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 234 pages) : tables
Language:English
Subject:
Child slaves -- History.
Slavery -- History.
Child slaves.
Slavery.
Electronic book.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275786
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Other authors / contributors:Campbell, Gwyn, 1952- editor.
Miers, Suzanne, editor.
Miller, Joseph C., editor.
ISBN:9780821443392
0821443399
0821418769
0821418777
9780821418765
9780821418772
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Significant numbers of the people enslaved throughout world history have been children. The vast literature on slavery has grown to include most of the history of this ubiquitous practice, but nearly all of it concentrates on the adult males whose strong bodies and laboring capacities preoccupied the masters of the modern Americas. Children in Slavery through the Ages examines the children among the enslaved across a significant range of earlier times and other places. The scholarship included brings our thinking about slaving and slavery to new levels of comprehensiveness and complexity, adding historical depth to the abuse of children for sexual and labor purposes that has become a significant humanitarian concern in recent decades. These essays fundamentally reconstruct our understanding of enslavement by exploring the often-ignored role of children in slavery and highlighting implications of child slavery by examining the variety of children's roles--as manual laborers, domestic servants, court entertainers and eunuchs--and the worldwide regions in which the child slave trade existed.
Other form:Print version: Campbell, Gwyn, 1952- Children in Slavery through the Ages. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2009
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller
  • Section I. The trades in slave children ; Child slaves in the early North Atlantic trade in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / António de Almeida Mendes
  • Children and European slave trading in the Indian Ocean during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Richard B. Allen
  • Small change : children in the nineteenth-century East African slave trade / Fred Morton
  • The brief life of 'Ali, the orphan of Kordofan : the Egyptian slave trade in the Sudan, 1820-35 / George Michael La Rue
  • Traded babies : enslaved children in America's domestic migration, 1820-60 / Susan Eva O'Donovan
  • Section II. The treatment and uses of slave children through the ages ; Part A. Children acquired for social, political, and domestic roles ; Singing slave girls (Qiyan) of the 'Abbasid court in the ninth and tenth centuries / Kristina Richardson
  • Becoming a devşirme : the training of conscripted children in the Ottoman Empire / Gulay Yilmaz
  • The third gender : palace eunuchs / Bok-Rae Kim
  • The well-being of purchased female domestic servants (Mui Tsai) in Hong Kong in the early twentieth century / Pauline Pui-ting Poon
  • Part B. Children in commercial slaveries ; Slave and other nonwhite children in late-eighteenth-century France / Pierre H. Boulle
  • The struggle for survival : slave infant mortality in the British Caribbean in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Kenneth Morgan
  • Left behind but getting ahead : antebellum slavery's orphans in the Chesapeake, 1820-60 / Calvin Schermerhorn.

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