Slaveries since Emancipation - Series page

pp iii-iv

Child Slavery before and after Emancipation - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: When Is a Child a Slave?

pp 1-22

Section I - The Child as Gift: The Logic of the Peculium in Perpetuating Logics of Enslavement

pp 23-74

1 - “Remember, Dear, when the Yankees came through here, I was only ten years old”: Valuing the Enslaved Child of the WPA Slave Narratives

pp 27-49

2 - The Slave Child as “Gift”: Involutions of Proprietary and Familial Relations in the Slaveholding Household before Emancipation

pp 50-74

Section II - The Public’s Claim to the Private Child: Slaveries Defined by a Child’s Value

pp 75-150

3 - The White Slave: American Girlhood, Race, and Memory at the Turn of the Century

pp 80-102

4 - Child’s Play: Schools, Not Jails

pp 103-122

5 - Born Free in the Master’s House: Children and Gradual Emancipation in the Early American North

pp 123-150

Section III - The Child as a Pivot Point between Consent and Complicity

pp 151-230

6 - Protecting the Young and the Innocent: Age and Consent in the Enforcement of the White Slave Traffic Act

pp 156-176

7 - Slavery and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers

pp 177-207

8 - Notions of African Childhood in Abolitionist Discourses: Colonial and Postcolonial Humanitarianism in the Fight Against Child Slavery

pp 208-230

Section IV - Children’s Voices, Children’s Freedom

pp 231-286

9 - “If I got a chance to talk to the world ... ”: Voice, Agency, and Claiming Rights in Narratives of Contemporary Child Slavery

pp 234-250

10 - “When I play with the master’s children, I must always let them win”: Child Domestic Labor

pp 251-269

11 - The Global Human Rights of Modern Child Slaves

pp 270-286

Index

pp 287-307