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