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

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 211 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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.