Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (American History and Culture Series)

by Mary Niall Mitchell (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $37.96

  From the 1850s and the Civil War to emancipation and the official end of Reconstruction in 1877, this work examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a national event with social, political, and cultural consequences. It analyzes multiple views of black child to demonstrate how Americans contested and defended slavery and its abolition.