Suffering childhood in early America
Subtitle: violence, race, and the making of the child victim
By: Anna Mae Duane
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820333830
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Suffering childhood in early America; title: Children in the hands of Satan : captivity, witch trials, and the dangerous child; title: This infant state : the child nation and infanticide in the early republic; title: Pregnancy and the new birth : reproduction, performance, and infantilizing republican mothers; title: The revolutionary child : slavery, affective contracts, and the future perfect; title: Epilogue: The materials and metaphors of schoolwork.