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Stolen childhood : slave youth in nineteenth-century America /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: King, Wilma, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1997.
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.