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- Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: When Is a Child a Slave?
- Section I The Child as Gift: The Logic of the Peculium in Perpetuating Logics of Enslavement
- Section II The Public’s Claim to the Private Child: Slaveries Defined by a Child’s Value
- Section III The Child as a Pivot Point between Consent and Complicity
- Section IV Children’s Voices, Children’s Freedom
- 9 “If I got a chance to talk to the world ... ”: Voice, Agency, and Claiming Rights in Narratives of Contemporary Child Slavery
- 10 “When I play with the master’s children, I must always let them win”: Child Domestic Labor
- 11 The Global Human Rights of Modern Child Slaves
- Index
9 - “If I got a chance to talk to the world ... ”: Voice, Agency, and Claiming Rights in Narratives of Contemporary Child Slavery
from Section IV - Children’s Voices, Children’s Freedom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2017
- Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
- Slaveries since Emancipation
- Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: When Is a Child a Slave?
- Section I The Child as Gift: The Logic of the Peculium in Perpetuating Logics of Enslavement
- Section II The Public’s Claim to the Private Child: Slaveries Defined by a Child’s Value
- Section III The Child as a Pivot Point between Consent and Complicity
- Section IV Children’s Voices, Children’s Freedom
- 9 “If I got a chance to talk to the world ... ”: Voice, Agency, and Claiming Rights in Narratives of Contemporary Child Slavery
- 10 “When I play with the master’s children, I must always let them win”: Child Domestic Labor
- 11 The Global Human Rights of Modern Child Slaves
- Index
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- Child Slavery before and after EmancipationAn Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies, pp. 234 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017