03605nam 2200961 a 450 991078191160332120230324204915.00-8147-6442-80-8147-9570-610.18574/nyu/9780814764428(CKB)1000000000486945(EBL)865765(OCoLC)779828232(SSID)ssj0000232433(PQKBManifestationID)11234875(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232433(PQKBWorkID)10210354(PQKB)10401305(MiAaPQ)EBC865765(OCoLC)230807727(MdBmJHUP)muse10539(Au-PeEL)EBL865765(CaPaEBR)ebr10268992(DE-B1597)547743(DE-B1597)9780814764428(EXLCZ)99100000000048694520071025d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRaising freedom's child[electronic resource] Black children and visions of the future after slavery /Mary Niall MitchellNew York New York University Pressc20081 online resource (336 p.)American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-9633-8 0-8147-5719-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-305) and index.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.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,American history and culture (New York University Press)African American childrenHistory19th centuryEnslaved personsEmancipationUnited StatesAmericans.Analyzes.array.black.cases.child--letters.childrens.citizenship.classification.columns.contested.court.debates.defended.dizzying.education.illustrate.labor.moreto.newspaper.over.photographs.racial.representations.sharp.slavery.tracing.African American childrenHistoryEnslaved personsEmancipation371.829/96073075Mitchell Mary Niall1461829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781911603321Raising freedom's child3670631UNINA