Labor of innocents
Subtitle: forced apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919
By: Karin L. Zipf.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Child labor -- North Carolina -- History.; Forced labor -- North Carolina -- History.; Indentured servants -- North Carolina -- History.; Apprenticeship programs -- North Carolina -- History.; Family policy -- North Carolina -- History.; Social classes -- North Carolina -- History.; North Carolina -- Race relations.; North Carolina -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Orphans, bastards, and free black children : antebellum and colonial North Carolina apprenticeship; title: "Justly entitled" to apprentices : race and labor in Reconstruction; title: Free-labor ideology, apprenticeship, and the Freedmen's Bureau : discontinuities in law and practice; title: Reconstructing "free woman" : African American mothers and apprenticeship; title: Parents' rights or children's best interests? : the role of judicial discretion in apprenticeship and child custody; title: "The day of apprenticeship is past" : the demise of apprenticeship and the triumph of child welfare.