Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

Stolen puerility:
knuckle down Youth in Nineteenth light speed the States
Reviewed by Mitzi Gatewood Turnage - LeMoyne Owen College, Memphis, Tennessee

King, Wilma, (2011). Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America - Wilma King 2nd Edition. Indiana University Press. ISBN: 978-0-253-35562-1 (cloth: alk. paper), ISBN: 978-0-253-22264-0 (pbk.: alk. paper)

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; however when I became a valet, I put away infantile things, 1 Corinthians 13:11- King James Version. How incredible this playscript verse sounds after reading Wilma Kings book, Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Equally incredible ar the stories mentioned in this wonderfully written historical treasure. From this give-and-take verse one nookie imagine that being a child, you were afforded the simplicities of a childs life. As a child you can speak, understand, think and play like a child. As a child, you are not expected to be a man or to have the same responsibilities as a man. This bible verse refers to a time before the Transatlantic Slave Trade when being a child was joyful and devilish time. But, after reading this book I was overwhelmed and shocked with the mankind of life for the enslaved children and youth.



The extensive research eliminates any myths that may bum from the lack of past historians not making the information on hand(predicate) to average readers. The children of this book were treated like adults and/or livestock. in that respect is no doubt that King want to set the move into straight about African and African American children and their families.
The long research arose concerning children, youth and adults captured during the Transatlantic Slave Trade term after Kings last book, Stolen Childhood: Blacks in Disporia, in that locationfore more information was needed to be examined and published. The parting of children captured during this time was not well documented but there was enough information...If you want to get a full essay, align it on our website: Orderessay



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