Stolen childhood
slave youth in nineteenth-century America
by Wilma King
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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 place in enslaved families and the slave community.
Wilma King argues that childhood was stolen from these youngsters - they were forced into the workplace at an early age, subjected to arbitrary plantation authority and punishment, and were separated from family. For this exhaustive study, King draws on a wide range of sources, including government records and many unpublished archival materials. This volume tells the story of these children and youth, adding their experience to the history of slavery in the United States.
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African American families, Child slaves, Emancipation, History, Slavery, Slaves, Sources, African American children, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Slaves, united states, social conditions, United states, history, 19th century, African americans, history, to 1863, Slavery, united states, historyPlaces
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Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in 19th Century America (Blacks in the Diaspora)
February 1998, Indiana University Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0253211867 9780253211866
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Stolen childhood: slave youth in nineteenth-century America
1995, Indiana University Press
in English
0253329043 9780253329042
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-246) and index.
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