Dětství v otroctví pohledem dobových ego-dokumentů

The article introduces the specific kind of American ego-documents – the so-called slave narratives – and uses them to discuss the experience of childhood spent in slavery. It further contrasts the reality of slave childhood with the period’s idealization of childhood as a fragile state of innocenc...

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Main Author: Šárka Bubíková
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: University of Pardubice 2012-01-01
Series:Theatrum Historiae
Online Access:https://theatrum.upce.cz/index.php/theatrum/article/view/1884
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Summary:The article introduces the specific kind of American ego-documents – the so-called slave narratives – and uses them to discuss the experience of childhood spent in slavery. It further contrasts the reality of slave childhood with the period’s idealization of childhood as a fragile state of innocence, purity and joyfulness and mentions how this contrast was used by the abolitionist movement.
ISSN:1802-2502
2571-0621