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
- Section III The Child as a Pivot Point between Consent and Complicity
- 6 Protecting the Young and the Innocent: Age and Consent in the Enforcement of the White Slave Traffic Act
- 7 Slavery and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers
- 8 Notions of African Childhood in Abolitionist Discourses: Colonial and Postcolonial Humanitarianism in the Fight Against Child Slavery
- Section IV Children’s Voices, Children’s Freedom
- Index
6 - Protecting the Young and the Innocent: Age and Consent in the Enforcement of the White Slave Traffic Act
from Section III - The Child as a Pivot Point between Consent and Complicity
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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
- Section III The Child as a Pivot Point between Consent and Complicity
- 6 Protecting the Young and the Innocent: Age and Consent in the Enforcement of the White Slave Traffic Act
- 7 Slavery and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers
- 8 Notions of African Childhood in Abolitionist Discourses: Colonial and Postcolonial Humanitarianism in the Fight Against Child Slavery
- 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. 156 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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