Child Apprenticeship and Black Maternal Authority following the Civil War.

This essay explores how Black freedwomen, despite systemic disadvantages, actively resisted the apprenticeship system after emancipation by asserting their maternal authority and embodied knowledge in custody disputes. Reframing them as intellectual agents rather than passive victims, the essay high...

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Publicado en:	Journal of American History Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 258 - 281
Autor principal:	Wicks-Allen, Jessica
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Sep2025
Materias:	Freedmen Free Black people Mothers Apprenticeship programs History of slavery Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Sumario:	This essay explores how Black freedwomen, despite systemic disadvantages, actively resisted the apprenticeship system after emancipation by asserting their maternal authority and embodied knowledge in custody disputes. Reframing them as intellectual agents rather than passive victims, the essay highlights how these women shaped Reconstruction-era policies and redefined freedom and power in the postwar South.