Child slavery before and after emancipation : an argument for a child-centered slavery studies / edited by Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut.

Introduction: when is a child a slave? / Anna Mae Duane
Part I: Introduction. The child as gift: the logic of the peculium in perpetuating logics of enslavement / Anna Mae Duane
1. 'Remember, dear, when the Yankees came through here I was only ten years old': valuing the enslaved child of the WPA slave narratives / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
2. The slave child as 'gift': involutions of proprietary and familial relations in the slaveholding household before emancipation / Sarah Winter
Part II: Introduction. The public's claim to the private child: slaveries defined by a child's value / Anna Mae Duane
3. The white slave: American girlhood, race, and memory at the turn of the century / Micki McElya
4. Child's play: schools not jails / Erica Meiners
5. Born free in the master's house: children and gradual emancipation in the early American North / Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
Part III: Introduction. The child as a pivot point between consent and complicity / Anna Mae Duane
6. Protecting the young and the innocent: age and consent in the enforcement of the White Slave Traffic Act / Jessica R. Pliley
7. Slavery and the recruitment of child soldiers / David M. Rosen
8. Notions of African childhood in abolitionist discourses: colonial and post-colonial humanitarianism in the fight against child slavery / Audra A. Diptee
Part IV: Introduction. Children's voices, children's freedom / Anna Mae Duane
9. 'If I got a chance to talk to the world': voice, agency, and claiming rights in narratives of contemporary child slavery / Kelli Lyon Johnson
10. 'When I play with the master's children, I must always let them win': child domestic labor / Jonathan Blagbrough and Gary Craig
11. The global human rights of modern child slaves / John Wall.