Suffering childhood in early America

Duane, Anna Mae, 1968-

Suffering childhood in early America violence, race, and the making of the child victim / [electronic resource] : Anna Mae Duane. - Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2010. - xi, 211 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: suffering childhood in early America -- Children in the hands of Satan : captivity, witch trials, and the dangerous child -- This infant state : the child nation and infanticide in the early republic -- Pregnancy and the new birth : reproduction, performance, and infantilizing republican mothers -- The revolutionary child : slavery, affective contracts, and the future perfect -- Epilogue: the materials and metaphors of schoolwork.


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Children--Social conditions.--United States
Violence--History.--United States
Victims--History.--United States
Suffering--Political aspects--History.--United States
Political culture--History.--United States
Ethnicity--History.--United States
Racism--History.--United States
Sex role--History.--United States


United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.


Electronic books.

HQ792.U5 / D795 2010eb

303.6083/097309032