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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
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:
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=188078123&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: hlh
    uiTerm: 188078123
    longDbName: Humanities International Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00218723
        JAT
      jtl: Journal of American History
      issn: 00218723
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Sep2025
      vid: 12
      iid: 2
      pid: 622
      pub: Oxford University Press / USA
    artinfo:
      ui:
        188078123
        10.1093/jahist/jaaf094
      ppf: 258
      ppct: 23
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              size: 384KB
      tig:
        atl: Child Apprenticeship and Black Maternal Authority following the Civil War.
      aug:
        au: Wicks-Allen, Jessica
        affil: Assistant professor of history at Arizona State University
      su:
        Freedmen
        Free Black people
        Mothers
        Apprenticeship programs
        History of slavery
        Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
      sug:
        subj:
          Freedmen
          Free Black people
          Mothers
          Apprenticeship programs
          History of slavery
          Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
      ab: 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.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: Y
      custom: © 2019 Organization of American Historians.
      item: Journal of American History
      holder: Oxford University Press / USA
      dt:
        @attributes:
          year: 2025
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N