- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations.
- 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 Statement
- A nation divided : studies in the Civil War era
- Uniform Title
- Intimate reconstructions (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Intimate reconstructions (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2014029160
- OCLC
- ssj0001455433
- Author
Jones, Catherine A., 1974-
- Title
Intimate reconstructions [electronic resource] : children in postemancipation Virginia / Catherine A. Jones.
- Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Series
A nation divided : studies in the Civil War era
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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