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3 - Working Analogies
- By Anna Mae Duane, Erica R. Meiners
Edited by Genevieve LeBaron, University of Sheffield, Jessica R. Pliley, Texas State University, San Marcos, David W. Blight, Yale University, Connecticut
Book: Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
Published online: 18 June 2021
Print publication: 01 July 2021, pp 56-72
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This chapter traces how historical analogies have enabled the use of the terms slavery and abolition in both the anti-trafficking and the anti-incarceration communities. By placing the often-contradictory approaches these two communities bring to the history of slavery, we trace how a belief in historical progress and an emotional investment in the power of innocence – both concepts embedded in our understanding of childhood – have helped to forge vexed and contradictory definitions of both slavery and freedom. Ultimately we argue that the complex work of historical analogy requires us to imagine history, and the solutions we create in response to history, outside of a developmental model that views the degradation of enslavement a stage we can outgrow or discard.

4 - Child’s Play: Schools, Not Jails
from Section II - The Public’s Claim to the Private Child: Slaveries Defined by a Child’s Value
- By Erica Meiners
Edited by Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut
Book: Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
Published online: 02 March 2017
Print publication: 17 February 2017, pp 103-122
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