| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery. By Mary Niall Mitchell. (New York: New York University Press, 2008. xii, 324 pp. $49.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-5719-2.)

In Raising Freedom's Child, Mary Niall Mitchell demonstrates that nineteenth-century Americans used representations of black children to explore and debate "the conflicting visions of the future that slave emancipation inspired" (p. 5). Some looked on the youngest freedpeople with hope, others with concern, particularly regarding societal disorder. Gazing through this "prism" of racial imagery, Mitchell offers an engaging and informative history of the Reconstruction era that ought to work well with advanced undergraduates and many other readers (p. 6).

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