Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: suffering childhood in early America
  • Children in the hands of Satan : captivity, witch trials, and the dangerous child
  • This infant state : the child nation and infanticide in the early republic
  • Pregnancy and the new birth : reproduction, performance, and infantilizing republican mothers
  • The revolutionary child : slavery, affective contracts, and the future perfect
  • Epilogue: the materials and metaphors of schoolwork.