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This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine was arduous overall and particularily intense during...
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Underenumeration of vital events is a problem familiar topeople who work with historical demographic records. This paper proposes a method for recovering information about neonatal mortality.The approach utilizes average heights of young children to predict the birth weight of American slaves....
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Intro -- CHILD SLAVERY NOW -- Contents -- Acknowledgments and dedication -- Notes on contributors -- List of … abbreviations -- List of boxes, figures, tables and photos -- Introduction -- Origins -- Themes -- Outline -- one. Child slavery … today -- Concept of child slavery -- From 'slavery' to 'slavery and practices similar to slavery' -- What is 'child slavery …
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Emigration and the Street Music Trade -- 2 "Les Petits Italiens" in Paris -- 3 "The Organ Boys" in London -- 4 "The Little Slaves" in New York -- 5 Italian Legislation, 1868-1873 -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes --...
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We offer a child-centric framework for reparations with considerations for policy and implications for child … larger among households with children than without children, with the child household racial wealth gap in 2019 remaining … comparable to that seen 60 years ago. Simulations suggest that a wealth transfer of $130,000 per child during early childhood …
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We study whether present-day women political participation in sub-Saharan Africa can be linked to the temporary gender ratio imbalances caused by the transatlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades, taking into account pre-existing gender norms influenced by kinship structures. Using...
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This report is updated annually and is intended to provide a general overview of Trafficking in Human Beings with a specific focus upon the European Union (EU). The first part of this report provides an overview of THB in general; the second part describes more in detail the current and possible...
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