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Raising Freedom's Child : Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery.
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. As a member of the first...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | American history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. As a member of the first generation of African Americans raised in freedom, the black child--freedom's child--offered up the possibility that blacks might soon enjoy the same privileges as whites: landownership, equality, autonomy. Yet for most white southerners, this vision was unwelcome, even frightening. Many northerners, too. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (336 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814764428 0814764428 |