Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa

by Kevin Bales

Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examines the ways trafficking in women and children has changed from the aftermath of the "end of slavery" in Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present.

The formal abolition of the slave trade and slavery did not end the demand for servile women and children. Contemporary forms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082142002X
• ISBN13: 9780821420027
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"