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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... Christianity practiced during the first centuries after Christ.12 Thus, the early missionaries wanted to isolate the Indians from the Spanish settlers, whom they considered violent, unjust, and immoral, like voracious sharks among ...
... Christian instruction to their own children, the style of which followed the pattern of the repetitive, metaphorical style of the Aztec didactic speeches.14 that resembled the Aztec codices. Pedro de Gante prepared small. A page from The ...
... , nor complains , because all of the care and concern of the parents is to procure [ sic ] that their sons make good progress in the teachings of Christianity . They learn perfectly ecclesiastical song, as well as that of the organ and.
... Christ had commanded the apostles to teach all nations without exception and declared that nothing justified depriving the Indians, who were reasonable men, of the faith, of their liberty, and of their property. The most outstanding ...
... Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint) and, along with the women, helped cultivate and gather flowers to decorate altars, shrines, statues, and the routes of the processions. The feast of Corpus Christi was one public event in.
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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 | |