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It is interesting to see the parallels between slave families and white families during industrialization. Both sets were facing exploitation of some sort, and both relied on the community. In the case of slaves, the community functioned as a defacto family. One could count on the community to raise your child if you were every separated. The community was also responsible for babysitting and food preparation. –Andrew B | It is interesting to see the parallels between slave families and white families during industrialization. Both sets were facing exploitation of some sort, and both relied on the community. In the case of slaves, the community functioned as a defacto family. One could count on the community to raise your child if you were every separated. The community was also responsible for babysitting and food preparation. –Andrew B | ||
| − | I think both black and white families needed the support of the community in order to raise their children. In the case of white families communities were not only physical and emotional support, but created the ideals of what a family should look like. The community helped mold the child into the adult that was acceptable to white society. They would set standards for children to meet, encourage racial hierarchy etc. Black slave families had to rely on the community they were living in because it was so common for a slave to be sold. People had to rely on the community as a type of family for support when their biological families were miles away. -- Kari W. | + | I think both black and white families needed the support of the community in order to raise their children. In the case of white families communities were not only physical and emotional support, but created the ideals of what a family should look like. The community helped mold the child into the adult that was acceptable to white society. They would set standards for children to meet, encourage racial hierarchy etc. Black slave families had to rely on the community they were living in because it was so common for a slave to be sold. People had to rely on the community as a type of family for support when their biological families were miles away. -- Kari W. |
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| + | I agree with Kari in that I think the community was essential to raising children in both black and white families. However, I think that the community played a larger daily role in the upbringing of black children, particularly slave children, whose mothers had to be working for most of the day. The reliance upon other slaves to assist in the raising of slave children appears as a form of communal parenting. --Sarah Gardner | ||
== Childbirth == | == Childbirth == | ||
