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Author

Schwartz, Marie Jenkins, 1946-

Title Born in bondage : growing up enslaved in the antebellum South / Marie Jenkins Schwartz.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2000.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	306.362083 Sch95b	---	Billed

Description	ix, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-259) and index.
Contents	Birth of a slave -- New mothers and fathers -- Young children in the quarter -- Education in the middle years -- To the field -- Risk of sale and separation -- Young love and marriage.
Subject	Child slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	African American children -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
ISBN	0674001621 (alk. paper)