Tending to the past: selfhood and culture in children's narratives about slavery and freedom

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Freedom narratives, history, and Black agency

Chapter 2. Retaining African selfhood and culture in American slavery

Chapter 3. Tending to memory and African American culture

Chapter 4. Stealing letters: freedom alternatives, literacy, and Black vernacular traditions

Chapter 5. Let's play: Black children's agency and the pursuit of fun

Chapter 6. Tending to the land: challenges of Black financial agency and community in youth freedom narratives

Afterword

Notes

Works cited

Index.