Labor of innocents : forced apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919

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

Author/creator	Zipf, Karin L., 1968-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2005.
Description	xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	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 Carolina--Race relations. North Carolina--Social conditions.

Contents	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.
Local note	Little-347961--305131054484
Local note	Little-347961--305131054484
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-196) and index.
LCCN	2004023426
ISBN	0807130451 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780807130452 (cloth : alk. paper)