Publication

2013 - University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa

Language

English

Word Count

69,000 words, Guess

Page Count

276 pages

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  • DDC813.009
  • LCCPS374.S58

Description

Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, children's literature has been an important means not only of mythologizing a certain racialized past but also, because of its intended audience, of promoting a specific racialized future. Stories about slavery for children have served as primers for racial socialization. This first comprehensive study of slavery in children's literature, Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010, also historicizes the ways generations of authors have drawn upon antebellum literature in their own re-creations of slavery.

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