Raising Freedom's Child Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery
The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. As a member of the first...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
NYU Press
2008, 2008
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| Series: | American History and Culture
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | The end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. As a member of the first generation of African Americans raised in freedom, the black child--freedom's child--offered up the possibility that blacks might soon enjoy the same privileges as whites: landownership, equality, autonomy. Yet for most white southerners, this vision was unwelcome, even frightening. Many northerners, too |
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| Physical Description: | 336 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780814757192 9780814796337 0814796338 9780814764428 0814764428 0814757197 |