Raising freedom's child
Subtitle: Black children and visions of the future after slavery
By: Mary Niall Mitchell.
Series: American history and culture
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780814757192
Subjects: Freedmen -- Education -- Southern States; African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Education -- Economic aspects -- Southern States; Children, Black
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emigration : a good and delicious country; title: Reading race : rosebloom and pure white, or so it seemed; title: Civilizing missions : Miss Harriet W. Murray, Elsie, and Puss; title: Labor : Tillie Bell's song; title: Schooling : we ought to be one people.