Children in slavery through the ages / edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller.

Other author Campbell, Gwyn, 1952-
Other author Miers, Suzanne.
Other author Miller, Joseph Calder.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAthens : Ohio University Press,
Descriptionvi, 234 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Enslaved children--History.
Slavery--History.

Contents Child slaves in the early North Atlantic trade in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / António de Almeida Mendes -- Children and European slave trading in the Indian Ocean during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Richard B. Allen -- Small change : children in the nineteenth-century East African slave trade / Fred Morton -- The brief life of 'Ali, the orphan of Kordofan : the Egyptian slave trade in the Sudan, 1820-35 / George Michael La Rue -- Traded babies : enslaved children in America's domestic migration, 1820-60 / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- Singing slave girls (qiyan) of the 'Abbasid court in the ninth and tenth centuries / Kristina Richardson -- Becoming a devşirme : the training of conscripted children in the Ottoman Empire / Gulay Yilmaz -- The third gender : palace eunuchs / Bok-Rae Kim -- The well-being of purchased female domestic servants (mui tsai) in Hong Kong in the early twentieth century / Pauline Pui-ting Poon -- Slave and other nonwhite children in late-eighteenth-century France / Pierre H. Boulle -- The struggle for survival : slave infant mortality in the British Caribbean in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Kenneth Morgan -- Left behind but getting ahead : antebellum slavery's orphans in the Chesapeake, 1820-60 / Calvin Schermerhorn.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2009023495
ISBN9780821418765 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0821418769 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780821418772 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0821418777 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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