Csaba Varga is Senior Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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"A nuanced and multilayered narrative illuminating the key role African American children played in the fight to end slavery and in the struggle to survive during Reconstruction." -"American Historical Review", "An engaging and informative history of the Reconstruction era." -"Journal of American History", "Like the best writing on the history of children, Raising Freedom's Child uses children and youth to suggest new paradigms for thinking about the past and for getting at the ways in which historical actors thought about the present .Mitchell has succeeded in making original contributions to several fields.." -"The North Carolina Historical Review", "Mary Niall Mitchell achieves a singular feat, setting herself apart from other historians of childhood." -"Journal of Southern History", "Mitchell's sophisticated, nuanced reading of a wealth of previously untapped documents and period photographs casts a dazzling, fresh light on the way that abolitionists, educators, missionaries, planters, politicians, and free children of color envisioned the status of African Americans after emancipation." -Steven Mintz, University of Houston