COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. She is coeditor, with Jennifer Hillman Helgren, of Girlhood: A Global History.

Colleen Vasconcellos’s exploration of the shifting experiences of enslaved children, the most vulnerable section of the plantation population, manages to illuminate ways that successive 'reforms' impacted their lives. She offers a plantation-level perspective on the changing repercussions for individual enslaved households of the successive reform efforts, running from the first questioning of slavery in the mid-eighteenth century, through efforts to legislate reforms via individual colonial legislatures, to the colonial repercussions of the ending of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, and then on to the transition from emancipation to “Full Free."

COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. She is coeditor, with Jennifer Hillman Helgren, of Girlhood: A Global History.

Colleen Vasconcellos’s exploration of the shifting experiences of enslaved children, the most vulnerable section of the plantation population, manages to illuminate ways that successive 'reforms' impacted their lives. She offers a plantation-level perspective on the changing repercussions for individual enslaved households of the successive reform efforts, running from the first questioning of slavery in the mid-eighteenth century, through efforts to legislate reforms via individual colonial legislatures, to the colonial repercussions of the ending of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, and then on to the transition from emancipation to “Full Free."

COLLEEN A. VASCONCELLOS is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. She is coeditor, with Jennifer Hillman Helgren, of Girlhood: A Global History.

Colleen Vasconcellos’s exploration of the shifting experiences of enslaved children, the most vulnerable section of the plantation population, manages to illuminate ways that successive 'reforms' impacted their lives. She offers a plantation-level perspective on the changing repercussions for individual enslaved households of the successive reform efforts, running from the first questioning of slavery in the mid-eighteenth century, through efforts to legislate reforms via individual colonial legislatures, to the colonial repercussions of the ending of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, and then on to the transition from emancipation to “Full Free."