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Labor of innocents : forced apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919 / Karin L. Zipf.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0807130451
  • ISBN: 9780807130452
  • Physical Description: xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2005]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Orphans, bastards, and free black children : antebellum and colonial North Carolina apprenticeship -- "Justly entitled" to apprentices : race and labor in Reconstruction -- Free-labor ideology, apprenticeship, and the Freedmen's Bureau : discontinuities in law and practice -- Reconstructing "free woman" : African American mothers and apprenticeship -- Parents' rights or children's best interests? : the role of judicial discretion in apprenticeship and child custody -- "The day of apprenticeship is past" : the demise of apprenticeship and the triumph of child welfare.
Subject:
Child labor > North Carolina > History.
Forced labor > North Carolina > History.
Indentured servants > North Carolina > History.
Apprenticeship programs > North Carolina > History.
Family policy > North Carolina > History.
Social classes > North Carolina > History.
North Caroliniana.
North Carolina > Race relations.
North Carolina > Social conditions.

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Jacksonville Main Library REF NC OCR 331.31 ZIP (Text) 36015000001426 Genealogy Available -