Stolen Childhood, Second Edition: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

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Second Edition Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America Wil m a K ing Stolen Childhood INDIANA University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis iupress.indiana.edu 1-800-842-6796 Blacks in the Diaspora Cover photograph: Cook Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center. Indiana U.S. History, African American Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in nineteenth-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the fifteen years since the first edition. While the structure of the book remains the same, Wilma King has expanded its scope with a new chapter on the transatlantic trade in African children, and the book’s geographic boundaries now embrace slave-born children in the North. She includes data about children owned by Native Americans and African Americans and presents new information about children’s knowledge of and participation in the abolitionist movement and the interactions between enslaved and free children. Wilma King is Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor in AfricanAmerican History and Culture at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Praise for the first edition: Second Edition K ing Childhood Stolen “King provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents.” — Booklist “A wonderful book with manifold strengths of research and analysis.” — Nell Irvin Painter “King’s deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience.” — Choice “[King] takes an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery.” — Washington Post Book World “Wilma King has done a service in correcting a major problem in slave history. Her writing style gracefully conveys both the joys and the terrors of youth under slavery.” — Southern Historian “Stolen Childhood mines the major American archives in order to present the ways in which enslaved men and women created a semblance of family life and cultural heritage.” — Christian Science Monitor StolenCmec.indd 1 4/28/11 3:45 PM ...