{"product_id":"raising-freedoms-child-black-children-and-visions-of-the-future-after-slavery-american-history-and-culture-9780814757192","title":"Raising Freedoms Child Black Children and Visions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a far-reaching, national event with profound social, political, and cultural consequences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA nuanced and multilayered narrative illuminating the key role African American children played in the fight to end slavery and in the struggle to survive during Reconstruction. * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003eRaising Freedom's Child provides an exceptional analysis of the centrality of African American children to the major historical debates of Reconstruction...Mitchell effectively connects the nation's failures to integrate public schools, to invalidate the apprenticeship system, and to acknowledge black parental authority to the dimming of Reconstruction's birght promises and to the coming of the sobering years of Jim Crow. -- Allyson Hobbs * Journal of American Ethnic History *\u003cbr\u003eRaising Freedoms Child demonstrates the importance of childhood studies for understanding the nations political, economic, and social history. In this carefully researched book, Mitchell keeps the black child at the center of the struggle to define freedom in the aftermath of Civil War and emancipation. -- Marie Jenkins Schwartz,University of Rhode Island\u003cbr\u003eEffective and eloquent examination of an understudied era. -- James Marten,Marquette University\u003cbr\u003eMitchells sophisticated, nuanced reading of a wealth of previously untapped documents and period photographs casts a dazzling, fresh light on the way that abolitionists, educators, missionaries, planters, politicians, and free children of color envisioned the status of African Americans after emancipation. -- Steven Mintz,University of Houston\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging and informative history of the Reconstruction era. * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003eMary Niall Mitchell achieves a singular feat, setting herself apart from other historians of childhood. * Journal of Southern History *\u003cbr\u003eRaising Freedoms Child is an extensively researched account with perceptive insights and fresh information. * Louisiana History Review *\u003cbr\u003eLike the best writing on the history of children, Raising Freedoms Child uses children and youth to suggest new paradigms for thinking about the past and for getting at the ways in which historical actors thought about the present.Mitchell has succeeded in making original contributions to several fields.. * The North Carolina Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Portrait of Isaac and Rosa 1 Emigration A Good and Delicious Country 2 Reading Race Rosebloom and Pure White, Or So It Seemed3 Civilizing Missions Miss Harriet W. Murray, Elsie, and Puss 4 Labor Tillie Bell's Song5 Schooling We Ought to Be One PeopleConclusion Some Mighty Morning Notes Index About the Author","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405897867607,"sku":"9780814757192","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814757192.jpg?v=1730493827","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/raising-freedoms-child-black-children-and-visions-of-the-future-after-slavery-american-history-and-culture-9780814757192","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}