Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture ed. by Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary A. Valante (review)

Abstract

The Case of the Slave-Child, Med is a brief yet comprehensive history in which Weierman challenges us to develop more robust accountings of post-emancipation life for formerly enslaved children. At every turn, Weierman considers how extant archival traces of Med are shaped by the understandings, perceptions, and formulations of the white abolitionists, enslavers, lawyers, and jurists who battled over her bondage and freedom. As such, Weierman encourages us to approach archival sources with a careful, critical eye.