Children in Colonial AmericaThe 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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... first exploration to see print was my essay " Some Root of Bitterness ' : Corporal Punishment , Child Abuse , and the Apocalyptic Impulse in Michael Wigglesworth . " 1 In the course of this research , however , I began to realize that ...
... first century as well as in centuries past. The continuities often are astonishingly important. Certainly in terms of the religious experiences of people within the Protestant communities — from fundamentalist to evangelical to ...
... first Westerners to think seriously about the place of children in society because their sons and daughters — and their sons and daughters - would bear the burden of preserving their " city on a hill . " Their close family relationships ...
... first children's books written in English, James Janeway's A Token for Children, published in England in the 1670s and in America in 1700.Modern readers might gasp at the subject matter in a book purportedly for children, but it was ...
... first contacts”— was its remarkable freedom from physical discipline, from physical labor, from any serious institutional restraints. Most Europeans blamed ignorance or laziness for the relatively light touch of Indian parents, but ...
Contents
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Enslaved Children | |
DOCUMENTS | |
Family and Society | |
Children Violence and the Courts in New Amsterdam | |
Growing | |
DOCUMENTS | |
Massachusetts | |
The Fragility | |
Anne Bradstreet | |
Girlhood in the French Gulf South and the British MidAtlantic | |
Educating Youth | |
Politicizing Youth | |
Questions | |
Bell | |