For slaves living in different economic regions of the nineteenth-century American South, the nature of pregnancy and childcare, as well as childhood itself (from birth until working age), differed by degrees. This study employs a comparative approach to uncover the relationship between regional agricultural economies, on the one hand, and slave childcare and childhood, on the other. Focusing on two very different southern communities - namely, Fairfax County, Virginia, and Georgetown District, South Carolina - this study underscores the economic and cultural diversity of the antebellum South, as well as the variations in the experiences of slave children in different economic regions. It also suggests that scholars' contrasting views of childcare as having been either adequate or inadequate, or of childhood as having amounted to a stolen childhood or not, are not mutually exclusive.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2011.601618
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