Bernard Moitt

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009296434
• Artikelnr.: 70909160

Autorenporträt

Bernard Moitt is a Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Born and raised in Antigua, his research focuses on slavery in French West Africa, primarily Senegal, and the French Antilles. He has previously published Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 (2001) and edited Sugar, Slavery and Society: Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes and the United States (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Urban Senegal in the second half of the nineteenth century
2. Evolution of tutelle
3. Adoption of minors and state control of tutelle
4. Legislating guardianship, 1848-1900
5. Juvenile labor
6. The crisis of 1903-1904
7. Minors in institutions
8. Marriage, life, death and abuse
Conclusion.