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269 contributors GWYN CAMPBELL is Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University. Born in Madagascar, he gained degrees in economic history from the universities of Birmingham and Wales, and has taught in India, Madagascar, Britain, South Africa, Belgium, and France. He was also an academic consultant for the South African government in the lead-up to the 1997 formation of an Indian Ocean regional association. He is author of An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895 (Cambridge, 2005), and is editor or co-editor of a number of slavery studies, including Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Routledge, 2005); The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Routledge, 2004); Children and Slavery (2 vols., Ohio University Press, 2009 and 2010); Women and Slavery (2 vols., Ohio University Press, 2007 and 2008); and Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Routledge, 2007 and 2009). In addition, he is the director of a major collaborative research initiative (MCRI) research project into “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction .” He is currently completing Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to 1900 to appear in the new Cambridge Economic History of Africa series. JONATHAN BLAGBROUGH has been active on child labor issues since 1989. From 1992 to 2006 he coordinated Anti-Slavery International’s Child Labour Programme, and has also worked on exploited children issues for a number of other organizations. Specializing in the situation of child domestic workers, Jonathan has collaborated closely with local NGOs in Asia, Africa, and Central/Latin America and the Caribbean, undertaking research, developing policy, and lobbying governments and international institutions, as well as authoring and editing a number of publications for Anti-Slavery International, ILO-IPEC, and UNICEF on the subject. Jonathan has a BA in Sociology from the University of York, UK, and a masters degree in International, European, and Comparative Law from Keele University, UK. He is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), 270 contributors University of Hull (UK), and is currently an international consultant on working children’s issues, based in London. WILLIAM GERVASE CLARENCE-SMITH is Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa at SOAS, University of London, and chief editor of the Journal of Global History (London School of Economics and Cambridge University Press). His latest book is Islam and the Abolition of Slavery (Hurst, 2006). He edited The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century (Cass, 1989), and authored Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola, 1840–1926 (Cambridge University Press, 1979, reissued in paperback, 2008). He has also written on colonialism, sexuality, diasporas , transport, and tropical agriculture. ZOSA DE SAS KROPIWNICKI was awarded a doctorate in International Development Studies at the University of Oxford on the basis of her ethnographic research on adolescent female sexual exploitation in Cape Town, South Africa. She has also completed two Masters degrees in Political Science and International Development Studies at Rhodes University and the University of Leeds, respectively. Zosa has designed and managed community-level, national, and regional research projects to inform evidence-based policy and programming on issues pertaining to child protection in southeast Europe, Central Asia, southern Africa, and West Africa for international nongovernmental organizations such as UNDP, UNICEF, IOM, USAID, and Save the Children Alliance members. In addition , Zosa has published reports on a range of issues pertaining to child protection such as abuse, exploitation, and trafficking. Zosa is currently working as a consultant in sub-Saharan Africa. MIKE DOTTRIDGE spent twenty-five years working in human rights nongovernmental organizations, most recently as director of the United Kingdom ’s oldest human rights organization, Anti-Slavery International. Since 2002 he has worked independently as a consultant on human rights and child rights issues, based in the United Kingdom but traveling widely. From 1995 onwards he has given particular attention to the exploitation of children (both economic and sexual) and human trafficking (whether involving children or adults). In 2002 he was one of the experts invited by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to help prepare a set of Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking (issued by the High Commissioner in May 2002). He is the author of numerous publications on human trafficking and the exploitation of children...

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