Raising freedom's child Black children and visions of the future after slavery / [electronic resource] :
Mary Niall Mitchell.
- New York : New York University Press, c2008.
- xii, 324 p. : ill.
- American history and culture .
- American history and culture (New York University Press) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-305) and index.
Emigration : a good and delicious country -- Reading race : rosebloom and pure white, or so it seemed -- Civilizing missions : Miss Harriet W. Murray, Elsie, and Puss -- Labor : Tillie Bell's song -- Schooling : we ought to be one people -- Conclusion : some mighty morning.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
African American children--History--19th century. Slaves--Emancipation--United States.