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  • Chapter 6 - Post-Civil War Black Childhoods

  • from Part II - Persons and Bodies
  • Edited by Eric Gardner
  • Book:
    African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
    Published online:
    18 March 2021
    Print publication:
    13 May 2021, pp 138-160

  • Summary

    In “Post-Civil War Black Childhoods,” Nazera Sadiq Wright surveys some of the vast body of Black Reconstruction-era literature that features Black children as central characters, with special emphasis on Steward’s serialized Christian Recorder short story “The Gem of the Alley” and attention to work by Collins and Harper. Wright shows how repeated (and often accurate) representations of the little charitable institutions did to protect Black children contrasts with orphaned Black children’s dutiful and intentional displays of charity and good will toward those less fortunate. Wright asserts that, especially in frameworks centered on family reunification, Black child characters express the damage from class and racial divides as well as the healing grace of Black community activism in the post-Civil War era.