Children in Slavery Through the Ages

Examines the children among the enslaved across a significant range of earlier times and other places. This volume reconstructs our understanding of enslavement by exploring the role of children in slavery and rejecting the tendency to narrowly equate slavery with the forced labor of adult males.

The volume's historical angle highlights many implications of child slavery by examining the variety of children's roles - among them, manual laborers, domestic servants, court entertainers, and eunuchs - and the worldwide regions in which the child slave trade existed.