Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal
Author: Bernard Moitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009296477

Uncovers the stories of children liberated from slavery in Senegal after 1848 and relegated to tutelle or guardianship.

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal

Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal
Author: Bernard Moitt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Child slavery
ISBN: 9781009296441

"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"--

Desiring Whiteness

Desiring Whiteness
Author: Caroline Séquin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501777041

Desiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Empire. Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has served to reinforce two myths about modern France—first, that it is a sexual democracy and second, it is a color-blind nation where all French citizens can freely marry whomever they wish regardless of their race. Caroline Séquin challenges the narrative of French exceptionalism by revealing the role of prostitution regulation in policing intimate relationships across racial and colonial boundaries in the century following the abolition of slavery. Desiring Whiteness traces the rise and fall of the "French model" of prostitution policing in the "contact zones" of port cities and garrison towns across France and in Dakar, Senegal, the main maritime entry point of French West Africa. Séquin describes how the regulation of prostitution covertly policed racial relations and contributed to the making of white French identity in an imperial nation-state that claimed to be race-blind. She also examines how sex industry workers exploited, reinforced, or transgressed the racial boundaries of colonial rule. Brothels served as "gatekeepers of whiteness" in two arenas. In colonial Senegal, white-only brothels helped deter French colonists from entering unions with African women and producing mixed-race children, thus consolidating white minority rule. In the metropole, brothels condoned interracial sex with white sex workers while dissuading colonial men from forming long-term attachments with white French women. Ultimately, brothels followed a similar racial logic that contributed to upholding white supremacy.

Child Slavery before and after Emancipation

Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
Author: Anna Mae Duane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107127564

An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children's roles in slavery's machinations.

Children and Youth in African History

Children and Youth in African History
Author: SE Duff
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 3031110978

This textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth.

African Military Politics in the Sahel

African Military Politics in the Sahel
Author: Katharina P. W. Döring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009362259

Based on extensive empirical research, Katharina P.W. Döring analyses the politics surrounding military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 and stresses the agency of regional organizations in African-led military interventions. Drawing on insights from critical geography, she considers the role that space plays in the power dynamics of the region.

Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army

Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army
Author: M. T. Howard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2024-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009348442

Draws from original interviews to provide insight into why thousands of black soldiers fought loyally and effectively for the Rhodesian Army.

Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’

Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’
Author: Tom Lavers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 650
Release: 2023-10-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009428268

This book provides a comprehensive, multi-sector analysis of Ethiopia's development project, which has rightly been regarded as one of the development success stories of recent decades. The book will interest scholars in African studies, political science and development studies, in addition to those with specific interests in Ethiopia.

Diverse Unfreedoms

Diverse Unfreedoms
Author: Sarada Balagopalan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2019-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000709035

The legacies of plantation slavery continue to inhabit, animate, and haunt the diverse forms of unfreedom that mark our present. Diverse Unfreedoms charts a new way of thinking through these legacies of unfreedom via a more entangled and multidirectional model of what makes for historical change and continuity in practices and relationships of subjugation. This volume troubles the stark opposition between slavery and freedom by foregrounding the diversity of types of exploitation above and beyond the most extreme forms of dehumanization characterized by slavery. The chapters, from multiple disciplines and discussing diverse regions and historical periods, illustrate the significance of interdisciplinary and international perspectives in understanding diverse unfreedoms, and offer a nuanced account of historical change and continuity in systems that generate and perpetuate unfreedom. Through examining the frictions that mark certain key moments of legal, social, and institutional transition, the essays in this volume express the limits of liberal humanist projects and present a critique of the liberal notion of freedom as the necessary horizon of emancipatory imagination and labor.