Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal

ISBN-13: 9781009296472 / Angielski

Bernard Moitt

Opis

Original and innovative, this book tells the story of Senegalese children freed from slavery in 1848 only to be relegated to tutelle or guardianship. Bernard Moitt demonstrates that tutelle allowed slavery to persist under another name, with children continuing to be subject to the same widespread labor exploitation and abuse.

Spis treści

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.