Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
African American Children in the Antebellum North
By Crystal Lynn Webster

Approx. 208 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6323-4
Published: June 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6322-7
Published: June 2021
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
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Reading her sources against the grain, Webster reveals a complex reality for antebellum Black children. Lacking societal status, they nevertheless found meaningful agency as historical actors, making the most of the limited freedoms and possibilities they enjoyed.
About the Author
Crystal Lynn Webster is assistant professor of history at The University of Texas, San Antonio.
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"With a novel and important focus on the construction of Black childhood in the antebellum North, Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood prompts us to rethink the construction of childhood and the experiences of Black children and their parents in northern cities."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Rutgers University