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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781911603321

Autore

Mitchell Mary Niall

Titolo

Raising freedom's child [[electronic resource] ] : Black children and visions of the future after slavery / / Mary Niall Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8147-6442-8

0-8147-9570-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

American history and culture

Disciplina

371.829/96073075

Soggetti

African American children - History - 19th century

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Emigration : a good and delicious country -- Reading race : rosebloom and pure white, or so it seemed -- Civilizing missions : Miss Harriet W. Murray, Elsie, and Puss -- Labor : Tillie Bell's song -- Schooling : we ought to be one people -- Conclusion : some mighty morning.

Sommario/riassunto

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,