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Stolen childhood : slave youth in nineteenth-century America / Wilma King.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Blacks in the diasporaPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 253 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585245002
  • 9780585245003
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stolen childhood.DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62/083 20
LOC classification:
  • E441 .K59 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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 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 For this exhaustive study, King draws on a wide range of sources, including government records and many unpublished archival materials.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.
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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.

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