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The Persistence of Slavery 2021
The Persistence of Slavery is a 2021 non-fiction book written by Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine and published by University of Massachusetts Press as part of their Childhoods series. The book tells the economic history of child trafficking in Nigeria, focusing on Southeastern Nigeria during the 20th century, particularly among Igbo children. Chapdelaine argues that child labor practices contributed to the 1929 Women's War. The work also examines child pawning, a form of domestic servitude where children were held in indentured situations until they repaid loans taken by adults who had pawned them.
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