Children At The Birth Of Empire
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Author | : Kristen McCabe Lashua |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000873064 |
This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law. Britons used their nascent empire to employ thousands of destitute children, launching an experiment in using plantations and ships as a solution for strains on London’s inadequate poor relief schemes. Starting with the settlement of Jamestown (1607) and ending with Britain’s participation in the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), British children were sent all around the world. Authorities, parents, and the public fought against the men and women they called "spirits" and "kidnappers," who were reviled because they employed children in the same empire but without respecting the complexities surrounding children’s legal status when it came to questions of authority, consent, and self-determination. Children mattered to Britons: protecting their liberty became emblematic of protecting the liberty of Britons as a whole. Therefore, contests over the legal means of sending children abroad helped define what it meant to be British. This work is written for a wide audience, including scholars of early modern history, childhood, law, poverty, and empire.
Author | : Kristen McCabe Lashua |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Forced migration |
ISBN | : 9780367507084 |
"This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law. Britons used their nascent empire to employ thousands of destitute children, launching an experiment in using plantations and ships as a solution for strains on London's inadequate poor relief schemes. Starting with the settlement of Jamestown (1607) and ending with Britain's participation in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), British children were sent all around the world. Authorities, parents, and the public fought against the men and women they called "spirits" and "kidnappers," who were reviled because they employed children in the same empire but without respecting the complexities surrounding children's legal status when it came to questions of authority, consent, and self-determination. Children mattered to Britons: protecting their liberty became emblematic of protecting the liberty of Britons as a whole. Therefore, contests over the legal means of sending children abroad helped define what it meant to be British. This work is written for a wide audience, including scholars of early modern history, childhood, law, poverty, and empire"--
Author | : Helen Berry |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Child labor |
ISBN | : 0198758480 |
The story of what happened to the orphaned and abandoned children of the London Foundling Hospital, and the consequences of Georgian philanthropy. From serving Britain's growing global empire in the Royal Navy, to the suffering of child workers in the Industrial Revolution, the Foundling Hospital was no simple act of charity
Author | : Michael Farah |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1800468075 |
Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have described the events of their extraordinary existence, scandals, loves, triumphs and tragedies.
Author | : Graham Seal |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300256221 |
A powerful account of how coerced migration built the British Empire In the early seventeenth century, Britain took ruthless steps to deal with its unwanted citizens, forcibly removing men, women, and children from their homelands and sending them to far-flung corners of the empire to be sold off to colonial masters. This oppressive regime grew into a brutal system of human bondage which would continue into the twentieth century. Drawing on firsthand accounts, letters, and official documents, Graham Seal uncovers the traumatic struggles of those shipped around the empire. He shows how the earliest large-scale kidnapping and transportation of children to the American colonies were quickly bolstered with shipments of the poor, criminal, and rebellious to different continents, including Australia. From Asia to Africa, this global trade in forced labor allowed Britain to build its colonies while turning a considerable profit. Incisive and moving, this account brings to light the true extent of a cruel strand in the history of the British Empire.
Author | : Christian Laes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521897467 |
This book illuminates the lives of the 'forgotten' children of ancient Rome and draws parallels and contrasts with contemporary society.
Author | : Emmanuelle Saada |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2012-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226733076 |
Operating at the intersection of history, anthropology, and law, this book reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. The author weaves together the perspectives of jurists, colonial officials, and more, and demonstrates why the French Empire cannot be analyzed in black-and-white terms.
Author | : Joy Schulz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Children of missionaries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ellen Boucher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107041384 |
A definitive history of child emigration across the British Empire from the 1860s to its decline in the 1960s.
Author | : Odd Magne Bakke |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451415308 |
Bakke paints a fascinating picture of children's first real emergence as people against a backdrop of the ancient world.Using theological and social history research, Bakke compares Greco-Roman and Christian attitudes toward abortion and child prostitution, pedagogy and moral upbringing, and the involvement of children in liturgy and church life. He also assesses Christian attitudes toward children in the church's developing doctrinal commitments.Today, growing numbers of children are impoverished, exploited, abandoned, orphaned, or killed. Bakke's insightful work begins to untangle the roots of their complex plight.