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- Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: When Is a Child a Slave?
- Section I The Child as Gift: The Logic of the Peculium in Perpetuating Logics of Enslavement
- Section II The Public’s Claim to the Private Child: Slaveries Defined by a Child’s Value
- 3 The White Slave: American Girlhood, Race, and Memory at the Turn of the Century
- 4 Child’s Play: Schools, Not Jails
- 5 Born Free in the Master’s House: Children and Gradual Emancipation in the Early American North
- Section III The Child as a Pivot Point between Consent and Complicity
- Section IV Children’s Voices, Children’s Freedom
- Index
5 - Born Free in the Master’s House: Children and Gradual Emancipation in the Early American North
from Section II - The Public’s Claim to the Private Child: Slaveries Defined by a Child’s Value
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2017
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Book contents
- Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: When Is a Child a Slave?
- Section I The Child as Gift: The Logic of the Peculium in Perpetuating Logics of Enslavement
- Section II The Public’s Claim to the Private Child: Slaveries Defined by a Child’s Value
- 3 The White Slave: American Girlhood, Race, and Memory at the Turn of the Century
- 4 Child’s Play: Schools, Not Jails
- 5 Born Free in the Master’s House: Children and Gradual Emancipation in the Early American North
- Section III The Child as a Pivot Point between Consent and Complicity
- Section IV Children’s Voices, Children’s Freedom
- Index
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- Child Slavery before and after EmancipationAn Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies, pp. 123 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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