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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... Boy's Life PART II Family and Society 4 Sibling Relations in Early American Childhoods : A Cross- Cultural Analysis C. Dallett Hemphill 5 " I Shall Beat You , So That the Devil Shall Laugh at It " : Children , Violence , and the Courts ...
... Educating Youth in Colonial Philadelphia Keith Pacholl 12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty: Politicizing Youth in Pre-Revolutionary Boston J. L. Bell DOCUMENTS " Though I Was Often Beaten Autobiography of John Barnard.
... boy seemingly without hope for salvation: There seemed to be little hopes of doing good upon him, for he was a very ... boys, he was, indeed, arrived at a great pitch of impiety. He would call names, take God's name in vain, curse ...
... boys and girls appear as nothing but “miniature adults.” Moreover, given the sometimes high mortality rates for children and others, especially in the southern colonies, and the largely agricultural economy, which required hard work ...
... boy had suddenly been transformed from a human being into a commodity . He was eight years old . The historian Wilma King named her book about antebellum slave children Stolen Childhood : Slave Youth in Nineteenth - Century America ...
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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 | |