African American Childhoods

Wilma King is Strickland Professor of African American History and Culture at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author and editor of several books on African American social history, including the definitive book on slave children in America, Stolen Childhoods: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America.

• IntroductionAfrica's Progeny Cast on America's ShoresMixed and Matched Colors: Interactions Between Enslaved and Slaveholder Children in the Old SouthSlave Children in Professional Households in the Antebellum South'No Bondage for Me': Free Black Boys and Girls Within a Slave Society'Dis was atter freedom come': The Gendered Nature of the Transition from Slavery to FreedomMulticultural Education at the Hampton Institute: A Case Study of the Shawnee Indians, 1900-1923'What a 'Life' This Is': An African American Girl Comes of Age During the Great Depression'You've Come a Long Way, Baby': Images of African American Children in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Print MediaViolence and Fear of Violence: Everyday Reality for African American Youth in Nineteen and Twentieth Century AmericaThe Emmett Till Generation: African American Schoolchildren and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1964

"An indelible portrait of growing up black from the 18th to the 21st century. Sweeping, deeply researched, and powerfully written, this volume captures African American children's responses to the slave trade, the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the civil rights movement. It offers fascinating insights into the evolution of African American childrens' play; the interactions of black, white, and Indian children; racial iconography in fiction and marketing; and the differences between African American girlhood and boyhood." - Steven Mintz, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston, and author of Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood