Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Portrait of a Girl and a Fabric Seller
1. The Value of Girls to the Royal Household of Dahomey, 1720s-1870s
2. Dashing and Entrusting Girls: The Atlanticization of Child Circulation during the Reigns of Kings Gezo and Glele, 1818-1889
3. Agbessipe and Her Mother: Female Wealth, Girl Pawns, and Enslaved Labor in Ouidah during the Era of "Legitimate" Trade, 1840s-1880s
4. A Runaway Girl amidst the Turmoil of Conquest: Household Economies and Colonial Transformations in the Kingdoms of Hogbonou and Dahomey, 1880s-1890s
5. Entrusted or Enslaved? Colonial Legal Debates about Girls' Statuses, 1900s-1930s
6. "Why Did You Not Cry Out . . . ?": Sexual Assaults of Entrusted Girls in Colonial Dahomey, 1917-1941
7. The Tele Affair (1936-1938): Anxieties about Transformations in Girlhood in Colonial Abomey
Conclusion: Obscured Histories of Girlhood
Glossary of Foreign Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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• História africana
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Dahomey; Benin; precolonial Atlantic Africa; child slavery; colonial law; child labor; child fostering; Atlantic biographies; market women; colonial legal history; child migration; gender; sexuality; French West Africa