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

Edition Pbk. ed Published Athens : London : The University Of Georgia Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction. Suffering childhood in early America. -- Chapter one. Children in the hands of Satan: captivity, witch trials, and the dangerous child. -- Chapter two. This infant state: the child nation and infanticide in the early republic. -- Chapter three. Pregnancy and the new birth: reproduction, performance, and infantilizing republican mothers. -- Chapter four. The revolutionary child: slavery, affective contracts, and the future perfect. -- Epilogue. The materials and metaphors of schoolwork Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Children -- United States -- Social conditions Violence -- United States -- History Victims -- United States -- History Suffering -- Political aspects -- United States -- History Political culture -- United States -- History Ethnicity -- United States -- History Sex role -- United States -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Children -- Social conditions Ethnicity Political culture Sex role Social conditions Victims Violence SUBJECT United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131 United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140512 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820341989 0820341983

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