Raising freedom's child : Black children and visions of the future after slavery / Mary Niall Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Mary Niall.

Series:

American history and culture (New York University Press)

American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American children--History--19th century.

African American children.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2008.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-305) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

9780814764428

0814764428

9780814795705

0814795706

OCLC:

779828232