Stolen Childhood, Second Edition: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (Blacks in the Diaspora) - Softcover

Drawing on extensive new scholarship and sources, [King] adds significant new demographic information regarding slave children and broadens her scope to include slave children born in the North and in urban centers. . . . Essential. * Choice * [King's] cogent general picture offeres a valuable entree into the topic, and provides a sound frame of reference for the temporally or spacially more specific research that her study should generate.39.3 Fall 1998 * American Studies * Stolen Childhood provides a broad overview of slave childhood throughout the nineteenth-century South and moves beyond the Civil War years to demonstrate that the brutality directed against enslaved children did not end with emancipation.May 2000 * Journal of Southern History * King has performed a valuable service to the historiographies of slavery and of children. It is important to be reminded that slaves were children before they became the men and women who form our more familiar images of slavery.Summer 1996 * Register Kentucky Historical Society * Wilma King's book is a welcome addition to the literature. . . The author compares the hardships of slave childhood with those created by war or siege.Fall 1996 * GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY * [Until] the appearance of this book, no monograph had focused exclusively on the many topics relating to the enslaved young.April 1997 * American Historical Review * [T]his is an ambitious book that not only pioneered the history of African-American child slavery, but also made a significant impact on the discourse addressing slavery in the USA more generally. . . a masterful work. * Slavery and Abolition * King's work is fresh and accessible. It fills key gaps in scholarship on slavery and would make for a worthwhile read for anyone from the casual reader of history to thescholar. * Tennessee Libraries *