BOOK | Vicious Infants: Dangerous Childhoods in Antebellum U.S. Literature (U of Mass Press, Jul 2021) by Laura Soderberg
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BOOK | A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures (U of Georgia P, 2020) by Gabrielle Owen
BOOK | Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North (U of North Carolina P, Jun 2021)
BOOK | The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
In “The Kidnapping Club,” the historian Jonathan Daniel Wells describes the circle of slave catchers and police officers who terrorized New York’s Black population in the three decades before the Civil War. They snatched up children, as well as adults, and sold them into slavery. –New York Times
Read moreBOOK | Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
BOOK | Children’s Literature in the Long 19th Century
