Stolen childhood
Subtitle: slave youth in nineteenth-century America
By: Wilma King
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780253355621; 9780253222640
Subjects: Slaves; Child slaves; Emancipation; African American families; Slavery; History
Description: This book deals with the subject of slave society, and focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition. While the structure of the book remains the same, the author has expanded its scope to include the international dimension with a new chapter on the transatlantic trade in African children, and the book's geographic boundaries now embrace slave-born children in the North. She includes data about children owned by Native Americans and African Americans, and presents new information about children's knowledge of and participation in the abolitionist movement and the interactions between enslaved and free children.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-497) and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent; title: "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community; title: "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth; title: "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth; title: "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education; title: "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth; title: "Free at last" : the quest for freedom; title: "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom.