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

• Autore: Mitchell Mary Niall
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.829/96073075
• Soggetto topico: African American children - History - 19th century; Slaves - Emancipation - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Raising freedom's child
• ISBN: 0-8147-6442-8; 0-8147-9570-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451361603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American history and culture (New York University Press)