Children in Slavery through the Ages

Nonfiction, History, Africa, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations
Cover of the book Children in Slavery through the Ages by , Ohio University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: ISBN: 9780821443392
Publisher: Ohio University Press Publication: September 8, 2009
Imprint: Ohio University Press Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780821443392
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication: September 8, 2009
Imprint: Ohio University Press
Language: English

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/modern world.

This is the first collection to focus on children in slavery. These leading scholars bring our thinking about slaving and slavery to new levels of comprehensiveness and complexity. They further provide substantial historical depth to the abuse of children for sexual and labor purposes that has become a significant humanitarian concern of governments and private organizations around the world in recent decades.

The collected essays in Children in Slavery through the Ages fundamentally reconstruct our understanding of enslavement by exploring the often-ignored role of children in slavery and rejecting the tendency to narrowly equate slavery with the forced labor of adult males. The volume’s historical angle highlights many implications of child slavery by examining the variety of children’s roles—as manual laborers and domestic servants to court entertainers and eunuchs—and the worldwide regions in which the child slave trade existed.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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/modern world.

This is the first collection to focus on children in slavery. These leading scholars bring our thinking about slaving and slavery to new levels of comprehensiveness and complexity. They further provide substantial historical depth to the abuse of children for sexual and labor purposes that has become a significant humanitarian concern of governments and private organizations around the world in recent decades.

The collected essays in Children in Slavery through the Ages fundamentally reconstruct our understanding of enslavement by exploring the often-ignored role of children in slavery and rejecting the tendency to narrowly equate slavery with the forced labor of adult males. The volume’s historical angle highlights many implications of child slavery by examining the variety of children’s roles—as manual laborers and domestic servants to court entertainers and eunuchs—and the worldwide regions in which the child slave trade existed.

More books from Ohio University Press

Cover of the book Preaching Prevention by
Cover of the book The Real Life of the Parthenon by
Cover of the book We Do Not Have Borders by
Cover of the book Land for the People by
Cover of the book Every Species of Hope by
Cover of the book Postcards from Stanland by
Cover of the book The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy by
Cover of the book Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America by
Cover of the book Fall or Fly by
Cover of the book Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention by
Cover of the book Environment at the Margins by
Cover of the book History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855–1870 by
Cover of the book Antidote by
Cover of the book 491 Days by
Cover of the book Doubtful Harbor by
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy