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This is a fascinating, convincing, and urgently necessary account of how debates over what constituted ‘freedom’ in the post-emancipation Cape Colony were shaped by attitudes towards children and childhood. As a result, this book contributes significantly to scholarship on South Africa, the British Empire, and emancipation and enslavement. * Sarah Duff, Associate Professor, Colby College, USA * This is a very innovative and incisive study of the policies towards, and experiences of, children in the Cape Colony during a period of major reconstruction of labour and social organization. It brings the category of age into a historical literature currently focused on race, gender and class. * Nigel Worden, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Cape Town, South Africa *

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Rebecca Swartz is Senior Lecturer in history at the University of the Free State, South Africa. A historian of empire, childhood and education her first book Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833-1880 was published in 2019.

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