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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... Mary or Juan. This resulted in a great variety of names, some of which were quite unusual. The names of some Indian boys registered in the schools reflect this practice: Dorotheo Cesario, Pío Quinto (Pius the Fifth), Benancio, Eusebio ...
... Mary that if she recovered her health she would dress as a monarch and go out in the dance.” On a chair by her bed lay the feathered headdress, rattle, and scepter for the costume of a pre-Hispanic princess, who would dance in the ...
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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 | |