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Born in bondage
growing up enslaved in the antebellum South
By Schwartz, Marie Jenkins
- ISBN
- 978-0-67400-162-6
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2000
In her first book, Schwartz looks deeply into the everyday ways masters and slave parents negotiated for "control" over slave children, a subject only recently plumbed in Thomas Webber's Deep Like the Rivers and Wilma King's Stolen Childhood. With a sophisticated reading of the WPA slave narratives, she reconstructs the experiences of slaves in Virginia, South Carolina...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
