Children in Colonial AmericaJames Alan Marten 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Race and Colonization | 11 |
Religion Gender | 33 |
documents | 61 |
Family and Society | 75 |
documents | 116 |
Cares and Tribulations | 125 |
Idiocy and the Construction of Competence | 141 |
The Fragility | 155 |
Anne Bradstreet Writes about Parenthood | 168 |
documents | 217 |
About the Contributors | 245 |