Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (Blacks in the Diaspora) Book PDF, ePub eBook

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Book Descriptions:

"More than simply a window into the world of younger slaves, Stolen
Childhood offers an informed and moving narrative that assists us in understanding
the people and the system that shaped many of the social patterns in American
life." -- Quarterly Black Review Booktalk

"This powerful
book should be read by everyone interested in understanding American character and
culture at its most basic level. It is a significant contribution to the growing
body of international works on the history of childhood." -- Paedagogica
Historica

"... evocative new study about children in
slavery.... movingly written, carefully documented... King's provocative thesis
concerning the deliberate and long-lasting race- and caste-linked theft of childhood
in the antebellum United States should give us pause and encourage us to think more
deeply about the heritage of abuse and deprivation and its effects through many
generations." -- Adele Logan Alexander, Washington Post Book
World

"... the slaves' voices emerge strongly and often
poignantly... " -- New York Times Book Review

"With
moral authority and appreciation for the telling anecdote, Wilma King takes up the
neglected story of black slave children in the American South."  -- Mary
Warner Marien, The Christian Science Monitor

"This is a
remarkably well researched volume." -- Journal of American
History

"King's deeply researched, well-written, passionate
study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave
experience." -- Choice

"... King provides a jarring
snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a
testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents, who
taught them necessary survival skills, self-respect, and love, despite nightmarish
existences." -- Booklist

"... King has here remapped old
and familiar terrain to lay out promising directions for fresh inquiry. Highly
recommended... " -- Library Journal

Wilma King sheds light on
a tragic aspect of slavery in the United States -- the wretched lives of the
millions of children enslaved in the nineteenth-century South. King follows the
slave child's experience through work, play, education, socialization, resistance to
slavery, and the transition to freedom.

Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (Blacks in the Diaspora) by Wilma King

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