- African American families, Child slaves, Emancipation, History
Wilma King sheds light on a long-overlooked aspect of slavery in the United States - the wretched lives of the millions of young people enslaved in the nineteenth-century South. A substantial body of scholarship examines the history of U.S. slavery, but it has not focused on these children and their place in enslaved families and the slave community.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Wilma King
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 253
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780253211866
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“If childhood was a special time for enslaved children, it was because their parents made it so.”
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