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: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
c2008.
New York, NY : [2008] |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | American history and culture (New York University Press)
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803296906719 |
| 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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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814764428 9780814795705 |
