Stolen childhood : slave youth in nineteenth-century America / Wilma King.
Stolen childhood : slave youth in nineteenth-century America / Wilma King.
Stolen childhood : slave youth in nineteenth-century America / Wilma King.
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Publisher
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995.
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N306.362083/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxi, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. You know I am one man that do love my children : Slave Children and Youth in the Family and Community --2. Us ain't never idle: The World of Work -- 3. When day is done: Play and Leisure -- 4. Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave: Temporal and Spiritual Education -- 5. What has Ever become of m...
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Publisher
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1995.
Place of Publication
Indiana
Date Published
c1995.
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Summary
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 communit...
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Stolen childhood : slave youth in nineteenth-century America / Wilma King.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-246) and index.
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N306.362083/1
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74VMlAoJvkGO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMlAoJvkGO
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ISBN
0253211867 (pbk.)
9780253329042 (acid-free paper)
0253329043 (acid-free paper)
9780253211866 (pbk.)
DDC
306.362083
MMS ID
991003423159702626
