Suffering childhood in early America [electronic resource] : violence, race, and the making of the child victim / Anna Mae Duane.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2010.Description: xi, 211 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.6083/097309032 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ792.U5 D795 2010eb
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Contents:
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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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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