03261nam 2200769 a 450 991082275920332120241221110715.0978081476442808147644289780814795705081479570610.18574/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(DE-B1597)679317(DE-B1597)9780814795705(OCoLC)646787412(ODN)ODN0002936598(Perlego)719419(EXLCZ)99100000000048694520071025d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRaising freedom's child Black children and visions of the future after slavery /Mary Niall Mitchell1st ed.New York New York University Pressc2008New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]20081 online resource (336 p.)American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-5719-7 0-8147-9633-8 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 StatesAfrican American childrenHistoryEnslaved personsEmancipation371.829/96073075HIS036000HIS036050bisacshMitchell Mary Niall1461829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822759203321Raising freedom's child3670631UNINA