The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria
(Part of the Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1625345240
ISBN13:9781625345240
Release Date:January 2021
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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