NetLibrary is once again offering us an additional free ebook for February. To celebrate African-American History month, Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery is free until February 28. According to their website:
"Drawing on previously untapped resources, author Mary Niall Mitchell demonstrates how the black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition. From the 1850s and the Civil War to emancipation and the official end of Reconstruction in 1877, Raising Freedom's Child examines slave emancipation and opposition to it as a far-reaching, national event with profound social, political, and cultural consequences. Mitchell analyzes multiple views of the black child—in letters, photographs, newspapers, novels, and court cases—to demonstrate how Americans contested and defended slavery and abolition."
To access this resource, go to the library homepage, then choose "online reference resources" and finally "netlibrary."
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