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

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Anna Mae Duane is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Duane, Anna Mae, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
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.
Racism > United States > History.
Sex role > United States > History.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
Children > Social conditions.
Ethnicity.
Political culture.
Racism.
Sex role.
Social conditions.
Victims.
Violence.
United States.
History.
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.

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