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Author Chapdelaine, Robin Phylisia, author.

Title The persistence of slavery : an economic history of child trafficking in Nigeria / Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth
Childhoods: interdisciplinary perspectives on children and youth.
Contents Introduction -- Politics, Social Relations and Trade in the Bight of Biafra -- Colonial Policies and Coercive Labor: Trade, Slaves and Debts -- International Consensus on the Welfare of Children, 1920s -- The Ogu Umunwaanyi (1929 Women's War) -- Child Trafficking in the Aftermath of the 1929 Women's War -- Conclusion
Summary "Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have continued to the present day. To understand why, Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine explores child trafficking, pawning, and marriages in Nigeria's Bight of Biafra, and the ways in which British colonial authorities and Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, and Ijaw populations mobilized children's labor during the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources that include oral interviews, British and Nigerian archival materials, newspaper holdings, and missionary and anthropological accounts, Chapdelaine argues that slavery's endurance can only be understood when we fully examine "the social economy of a child"-the broader commercial, domestic, and reproductive contexts in which children are economic vehicles. The Persistence of Slavery provides an invaluable investigation into the origins of modern slavery and early efforts to combat it, locating this practice in the political, social, and economic changes that occurred as a result of British colonialism and its lingering effects, which perpetuate child trafficking in Nigeria today"
Subject Child trafficking -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century
Child trafficking -- Economic aspects -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century
Enslaved children -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century
Child marriage -- Nigeria -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Child marriage
Enslaved children
Child trafficking
Nigeria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613767733
1613767730