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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... 3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities: Enslaved Children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 Audra Abbe Diptee DOCUMENTS “The Younger Sort Reverence the Elder”: A Pilgrim Describes Indian Childrearing " I Have Often Been Overcome While Thinking on It.
... Jamaica show how Western Europeans employed schools , churches , and slavery to overwhelm indigenous peoples and to control the " immigrants " stolen into slavery by reshaping the lives of Native American and African children . The ...
... Jamaica's “colonial project” stretches our knowledge about eighteenth- century attitudes toward children and the ways those attitudes were adapted to match the blunt economy of the plantation system that was central to European ...
... Jamaican slave children shared Broteer's virtually complete loss of childhood, while Indian children in Mexico and New England found their childhoods reshaped and their lives reorganized around values and institutions imposed on them ...
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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 | |