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Author:

Jones, Catherine A., 1974- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015008426

Title:

Intimate reconstructions : children in postemancipation Virginia / Catherine A. Jones.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Children--Virginia--History--19th century.
Children--Virginia--Social conditions--19th century.
African American children--Virginia--History--19th century.
Children, White--Virginia--History--19th century.
Slaves--History--Social aspects--Virginia--History--19th century.
Freedmen--Virginia--History--19th century.
Virginia--Social conditions--19th century.
Virginia--History--History--19th century.
United States--Children.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Children.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Persistence of Insecurity : Children in the Transition from War to Peace -- Recovering Freed Children and Recuperating Kinship -- White Children and the Intimate Landscape of Defeat -- Public Children : Contemptible Garrotters, Pitiable Orphans, and Pliable Workers -- Creating Confederate Orphans : Reconstructing History, Race, and Duty -- Children, Schools, and the Post-Reconstruction Future of the Public.

Summary:

"This book examines the paths of black and white children, and disputes over rights and responsibilities with regard to them, through the tumultuous period following emancipation and Confederate defeat"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

A nation divided : studies in the Civil War era

ISBN:

0813936756
9780813936758

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898087332

LCCN:

2014029160

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)