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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of American History Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 258 - 281 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2025
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