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Child Slavery before and after Emancipation: An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies
Anna Mae Duane
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Description for Child Slavery before and after Emancipation: An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies
hardcover. An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children's roles in slavery's machinations. Editor(s): Duane, Anna Mae. Series: Slaveries Since Emancipation. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFM; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 560.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Slaveries Since Emancipation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107127562
SKU
V9781107127562
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About Anna Mae Duane
Anna Mae Duane is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race and the Making of the Child Victim (2010), the editor of The Children's Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities (2013), and the co-editor of Who Writes for Black Children?: African American Children's Literature before 1900 ... Read more
Reviews for Child Slavery before and after Emancipation: An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies
'These consistently excellent, highly insightful essays compel us to reconsider the problem of slavery as history and also as an agonizing contemporary challenge. The case developed here for a child-centered study of slavery, past and present, is truly compelling.' James Brewer Stewart, Founder, Historians Against Slavery 'In this excellent and original collection, Anna Mae Duane and her team have carefully ... Read more