Chapter 1 Africa’s Progeny Cast upon American Shores

Chapter 2 Minor Players in Bondage: Interactions between Enslaved and Slaveholding Children in the Old South

Chapter 3 Within the Professional Household: Slave Children in the Antebellum South

Chapter 4 No Bondage for Me: Free Boys and Girls Within a Slave Society

Chapter 5 “Dis Was atter Freedom Come”: Freed Girls and Boys Remember the Emancipation

Chapter 7 What a “Life” This Is: An African American Girl Comes of Age during the Great Depression in Urban America

Chapter 8 The Long Way from the Gold Dust Twins to the Williams Sisters: Images of African American Children in Selected Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Print Media

Chapter 9 African American Youth Face Violence and Fear of Violence in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America

Chapter 10 Emmett Till Generation: African American Schoolchildren and the Modern Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954–1964

Chapter 11 Afterword: African American Children in Contemporary Society