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In some ways, the slave children can be compared to the children of the slums in the NY. Only sorta mind you. The comparison is that they both had to start working from a really early age. I know we didn't get an age for the kids in NY, but the slave children were working at the age of 6... which means some of them probably got beat for 'misbehaving' at the age of 6... or even younger. :-( --Ashley Wilkins | In some ways, the slave children can be compared to the children of the slums in the NY. Only sorta mind you. The comparison is that they both had to start working from a really early age. I know we didn't get an age for the kids in NY, but the slave children were working at the age of 6... which means some of them probably got beat for 'misbehaving' at the age of 6... or even younger. :-( --Ashley Wilkins | ||
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| + | == It takes a village... == | ||
| + | After reading both sections of Stevenson's book about white and black families, I wonder which group this statement applies to best: it takes a village to raise a child. I can see both sides. White families may have had a mid-wife involved in the family, along with slave nurses, and extended family. White women seem to have had more time to raise their own children. In black families and communities, childrearing defaulted to other slaves and older women. Mothers had little if any time to be mothers, and may have been separated from their kids either by work or sale. Is it clear cut which group--black or white--raised children with the community? -Amanda | ||
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