Stolen Childhood
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Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America by Wilma King
“More than simply a window into the world of younger slaves, StolenChildhood offers an informed and moving narrative that assists us in understandingthe people and the system that shaped many of the social patterns in Americanlife.” — Quarterly Black Review Booktalk
“This powerfulbook should be read by everyone interested in understanding American character andculture at its most basic level. It is a significant contribution to the growingbody of international works on the history of childhood.” — Paedagogica Historica
..”. evocative new study about children inslavery…. movingly written, carefully documented… King’s provocative thesisconcerning the deliberate and long-lasting race- and caste-linked theft of childhoodin the antebellum United States should give us pause and encourage us to think moredeeply about the heritage of abuse and deprivation and its effects through manygenerations.” — Adele Logan Alexander, Washington Post BookWorld
..”. the slaves’ voices emerge strongly and oftenpoignantly… “ — New York Times Book Review
“Withmoral authority and appreciation for the telling anecdote, Wilma King takes up theneglected story of black slave children in the American South.” — MaryWarner Marien, The Christian Science Monitor
“This is aremarkably well researched volume.” — Journal of AmericanHistory
“King’s deeply researched, well-written, passionatestudy places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slaveexperience.” — Choice
..”. King provides a jarringsnapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is atestament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents, whotaught them necessary survival skills, self-respect, and love, despite nightmarishexistences.” — Booklist
..”. King has here remapped oldand familiar terrain to lay out promising directions for fresh inquiry. Highlyrecommended… “ — Library Journal
Wilma King sheds light ona tragic aspect of slavery in the United States — the wretched lives of themillions of children enslaved in the nineteenth-century South. King follows theslave child’s experience through work, play, education, socialization, resistance toslavery, and the transition to freedom.
