Children in Slavery through the Ages:
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1. Verfasser: Campbell, Gwyn (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, OH Ohio University Press 2009
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Beschreibung:Editors' Introduction; 1: Child Slaves in the Early North Atlantic Trade in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; 2: Children and European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean during the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 3: Small Change: Children in the Nineteenth-Century East African Slave Trade; 4: The Brief Life of 'Ali, the Orphan of Kordofan: The Egyptian Slave Trade in the Sudan, 1820-35; 5: Traded Babies: Enslaved Children in America's Domestic Migration, 1820-60; 6: Singing Slave Girls (Qiyan) of the 'Abbasid Court in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
7: Becoming a Devsirme: The Training of Conscripted Children in the Ottoman Empire8: The Third Gender: Palace Eunuchs; 9: The Well-Being of Purchased Female Domestic Servants (Mui Tsai) in Hong Kong in the the Early Twentieth Century; 10: Slave and Other Nonwhite Children in Late-Eighteenth-Century France; 11: The Struggle for Survival: Slave Infant Mortality in the British Caribbean in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 12: Left Behind but Getting Ahead: Antebellum Slavery's Orphans in the Chesapeake, 1820-1860; Contributors; Index
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; its companion volume will examine the children enslaved in recent American contexts and in the contemporary/moder
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ISBN:0821443399
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