Stolen childhood slave youth in nineteenth-century America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Wilma, 1942-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington [Ind.] : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent
  • "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community
  • "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth
  • "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth
  • "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education
  • "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth
  • "Free at last" : the quest for freedom
  • "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.