Stolen childhood : slave youth in nineteenth-century America /
Wilma King.
- 2nd ed.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011.
- 512 p. : ill.
- Blacks in the diaspora .
In the beginning : the transatlantic trade in children of African descent -- "You know I am one man that do love my children" : slave children and youth in the family and community -- "Us ain't never idle" : the work of enslaved children and youth -- "When day is done" : the play and leisure activities of enslaved children and youth -- "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave" : temporal and spiritual education -- "What has ever become of my presus little girl" : the traumas and tragedies of slave children and youth -- "Free at last" : the quest for freedom -- "There's a better day a-coming" : the transition from slavery to freedom. HKBU library
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Slavery--History--United States--19th century. Enslaved children--History--United States--19th century. African American families--History--19th century. Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.