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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.