ISBN:
0585245002
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9780585245003
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxi, 253 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Blacks in the diaspora
Parallel Title:
Print version Stolen childhood
DDC:
306.362083
Keywords:
Slavery Sources
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History
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19th century
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United States
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Child slaves Sources
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History
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19th century
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African American families Sources
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History
;
19th century
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
United States
;
Child slaves History 19th century
;
African American families History 19th century
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
Slavery History 19th century
;
Slavery Sources History 19th century
;
Slaves Emancipation
;
African American families Sources History 19th century
;
Child slaves Sources History 19th century
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Child slaves
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Slavery
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Slaves ; Emancipation
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African American families
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
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History
;
United States History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
United States History 19th century
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United States History 19th century
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United States
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Electronic books History
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Sources
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Quelle
Abstract:
Wilma King sheds light on a long-overlooked aspect of slavery in the United States - the wretched lives of the millions of young people enslaved in the nineteenth-century South. A substantial body of scholarship examines the history of U.S. slavery, but it has not focused on these children and their place in enslaved families and the slave community. Wilma King argues that childhood was stolen from these youngsters - they were forced into the workplace at an early age, subjected to arbitrary plantation authority and punishment, and were separated from family. For this exhaustive study, King draws on a wide range of sources, including government records and many unpublished archival materials. This volume tells the story of these children and youth, adding their experience to the history of slavery in the United States
Note:
Originally published by Indiana University Press in 1995. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-246) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Originally published by Indiana University Press in 1995
