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Children in Colonial America
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The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical re...
The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the indigenous families whom they encountered, and those children's life experiences enrich and complicate our understanding of colonial America. Through essays, primary documents, and contemporary illustrations, Children in Colonial America examines the unique aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth a.
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- English
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- New York : NYU Press, 2006
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- 1 online resource (407 pages)
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- 9780814764466, 0814764460, 9780814757161
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- ocn913695234
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Philip J. Greven; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Race and Colonization; 1 Indian Children in Early Mexico; 2 Colonizing Childhood: Religion, Gender, and Indian Children in Southern New England, 1600-1720; 3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities: Enslaved Children in Jamaica, 1775-1834; "The Younger Sort Reverence the Elder": A Pilgrim Describes Indian Childrearing; "I Have Often Been Overcome While Thinking on It": A Slave Boy's Life; PART II Family and Society
- 4 Sibling Relations in Early American Childhoods: A Cross-Cultural Analysis5 "I Shall Beat You, So That the Devil Shall Laugh at It": Children, Violence, and the Courts in New Amsterdam; 6 "Improved" and "Very Promising Children": Growing Up Rich in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina; "A Dutiful and Affectionate Daughter": Growing Up Rich in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina; "A Most Agreeable Family": Philip Vickers Fithian Meets the Carters; PART III Cares and Tribulations; 7 "Decrepit in Their Early Youth": English Children in Holland and Plymouth Plantation
- 8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts9 "My Constant Attension on My Sick Child": The Fragility of Family Life in the World of Elizabeth Drinker; "I Had Eight Birds Hatcht in One Nest": Anne Bradstreet Writes about Parenthood; PART IV Becoming Americans; 10 From German Catholic Girls to Colonial American Women: Girlhood in the French Gulf South and the British Mid-Atlantic Colonies; 11 "Let Both Sexes Be Carefully Instructed": Educating Youth in Colonial Philadelphia; 12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty: Politicizing Youth in Pre-Revolutionary Boston
- "Though I Was Often Beaten for My Play": The Autobiography of John Barnard"A Bookish Inclination": Benjamin Franklin Grows Up; In Search of the Historical Child: Questions for Consideration; Suggested Readings; About the Contributors; Index
Subjects
- Children -- United States -- History -- 16th century.
- Children -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
- Children -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Children -- America -- History -- 18th century.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
- United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
- America -- Social life and customs.
- America -- Social conditions.