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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
- 1 “Remember, Dear, when the Yankees came through here, I was only ten years old”: Valuing the Enslaved Child of the WPA Slave Narratives
- 2 The Slave Child as “Gift”: Involutions of Proprietary and Familial Relations in the Slaveholding Household before Emancipation
- 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
- Section IV Children’s Voices, Children’s Freedom
- Index
2 - The Slave Child as “Gift”: Involutions of Proprietary and Familial Relations in the Slaveholding Household before Emancipation
from Section I - The Child as Gift: The Logic of the Peculium in Perpetuating Logics of Enslavement
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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
- 1 “Remember, Dear, when the Yankees came through here, I was only ten years old”: Valuing the Enslaved Child of the WPA Slave Narratives
- 2 The Slave Child as “Gift”: Involutions of Proprietary and Familial Relations in the Slaveholding Household before Emancipation
- 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
- 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. 50 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017