{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-slavery-an-economic-history-of-child-trafficking-in-nigeria-9781625345240","title":"The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Persistence of Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important, original contribution to the history of child trafficking in the twentieth century, the history of children globally, and to Nigerian and West African history, in general.\" —Benjamin N. Lawrance, editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eAfrican Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eAmistad’s Orphans: An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the few book-length studies on the history of children in colonial Africa,\u003ci\u003e The Persistence of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e is necessary and timely. It will be a first choice for courses on African history and childhood studies.\" —Saheed Aderinto, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900–1958\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041771848023,"sku":"9781625345240","price":30.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-persistence-of-slavery-an-economic-history-of-child-trafficking-in-nigeria-9781625345240","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}