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



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Autore: Mitchell Mary Niall Visualizza persona
Titolo: Raising freedom's child [[electronic resource] ] : Black children and visions of the future after slavery / / Mary Niall Mitchell Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-6442-8
0-8147-9570-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451361603321
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Serie: American history and culture (New York University Press)