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Informationen zum Autor Wilma King is Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor in African-American History and Culture at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she holds a joint appointment in the Black Studies Program and Department of History. Her books include The Essence of Liberty: Free Black Women during the Slave Era; We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History (edited with Darlene Clark Hine and Linda Reed); A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876; Children of the Emancipation; and Toward the Promised Land: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to the Onset of the Civil War, 1851-1861 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Slavery's impact on children and families Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1. In the Beginning: The Transatlantic Trade in Children of African Descent 2. "You know that I am one man that do love his children": Slave Children and Youth in the Family and Community 3. "Us ain't never idle": Slave Children and Youth in the World of Work 4. "When day is done": Play and Leisure Activities of Slave Children and Youth 5. "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave": The Temporal and Spiritual Education of Slave Children and Youth 6. "What has Ever Become of My Presus Little Girl": The Traumas and Tragedies of Slave Children and Youth 7. "Free at last": The Quest for Freedom by Slave Children and Youth 8. "There's a better day a-coming": The Transition from Slavery to Freedom for Children and Youth Notes Appendixes Bibliography Index ...
