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Author:

Zipf, Karin L., 1968-

Title:

Labor of innocents : forced apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919 / Karin L. Zipf.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xi, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Child labor--North Carolina--History.
Forced labor--North Carolina--History.
Indentured servants--North Carolina--History.
Apprenticeship programs--North Carolina--History.
Family policy--North Carolina--History.
Social classes--North Carolina--History.
North Carolina--Race relations.
North Carolina--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index.

Contents:

Orphans, bastards, and free black children : antebellum and colonial North Carolina apprenticeship -- "Justly entitled" to apprentices : race and labor in Reconstruction -- Free-labor ideology, apprenticeship, and the Freedmen's Bureau : discontinuities in law and practice -- Reconstructing "free woman" : African American mothers and apprenticeship -- Parents' rights or children's best interests? : the role of judicial discretion in apprenticeship and child custody -- "The day of apprenticeship is past" : the demise of apprenticeship and the triumph of child welfare.

ISBN:

9780807130452 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807130451 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56924836

LCCN:

2004023426

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)