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Minors in Name Only: Child Laborers in the Diamond Mines of the Companha de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), 1917-1975

Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, USA

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: toddcleveland{at}augustana.edu.

	Abstract

Although African men and women comprised the vast majority of the labor force on Angola’s colonial-era diamond mines, child laborers, or "minors," also played important roles, primarily as mineworkers and plantation laborers. While these young male and female laborers’ daily tasks were often lighter than those assigned to adult males, they often worked side-by-side with more senior workers and were equally subject to physical abuse, poor rations, and injuries. Similarly, minors also employed many of the same strategies as their more senior coworkers to better their lives. Their experiences suggest that these young laborers were minors in name only.

First published on October 28, 2009
Journal of Family History 2009, doi:10.1177/0363199009348373


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