Stolen childhood: slave youth in nineteenth-century America
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Main Author: King, Wilma (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 1997
Series:Blacks in the diaspora
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Item Description:Originally published by Indiana University Press in 1995
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-246) and index
Wilma King sheds light on a long-overlooked aspect of slavery in the United States - the wretched lives of the millions of young people enslaved in the nineteenth-century South. A substantial body of scholarship examines the history of U.S. slavery, but it has not focused on these children and their place in enslaved families and the slave community. Wilma King argues that childhood was stolen from these youngsters - they were forced into the workplace at an early age, subjected to arbitrary plantation authority and punishment, and were separated from family. For this exhaustive study, King draws on a wide range of sources, including government records and many unpublished archival materials. This volume tells the story of these children and youth, adding their experience to the history of slavery in the United States
Slave children and youth in the family and community -- The world of work -- Play and leisure -- Temporal and spiritual education -- The traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- The quest for freedom -- The transition from slavery to freedom
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 253 pages)
ISBN:0253211867
0585245002
9780585245003

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