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

Contributor(s): Campbell, Gwyn, 1952- | Miers, Suzanne | Miller, Joseph Calder
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2009.Description: vi, 234 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780821418765; 9780821418772 (pbk)DDC classification: 306.3/6208309
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.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Class number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item reservations
Book Book British Museum
Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KFJF [CAM-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M48172
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.