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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... Mexico Dorothy Tanck de Estrada 2 Colonizing Childhood: Religion, Gender, and Indian Children in Southern New England, 1600-1720 R. Todd Romero 3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities: Enslaved Children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 Audra Abbe ...
... Mexico to the Dutch-born children of Plymouth colony to children and adolescents in New England, the middle colonies, and the southern colonies and to the African-born offspring of slaves in the Caribbean. All of these geographical ...
... Mexico , New England , and 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 ...
... Mexico and New England found their childhoods reshaped and their lives reorganized around values and institutions imposed on them and their families by European colonists. These essays, along with the eyewitness account of Native ...
James Marten, Philip J Greven. Chapter. 1. Indian. Children. in. Early. Mexico. Dorothy Tanck de Estrada The nation now known as Mexico was called New Spain from 1521 to 1821 when, in what is considered the colonial period, it was under the ...
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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 | |