Persistence of Slavery
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African oral history accounts of slavery
anthropological studies of coerced childhood labor
archival evidence of child exploitation
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British colonialism and forced labor systems
British Empire and African labor policies
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child labor exploitation in colonial Africa
child pawning and family economies
coerced labor practices in Nigeria
colonial governance and coerced child marriages
colonial Nigeria archival research
contested meanings of abolition in Africa
continuity of slavery practices into the twentieth century
domestic servitude and hidden forms of slavery
economic motivations behind child trafficking
economic value of children in African households
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exploitation of minors under colonial rule
historical analysis of slavery's persistence beyond abolition
historical roots of human trafficking in West Africa
Igbo Ibibio Efik Ijaw history
indigenous responses to British labor laws
intersections of kinship and labor exploitation
legacies of colonialism in Nigerian society
local complicity in perpetuating coerced labor
missionary perspectives on child servitude
newspaper reports on child servitude in Nigeria
nineteenth and twentieth century forced labor transitions
reproductive labor and colonial economies
resistance to abolition in West Africa
slavery and cultural practices in Bight of Biafra
social economy of children in colonial societies
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345233
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine is assistant professor of history at Duquesne University.
