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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... : The " A Bookish Inclination " : Benjamin Franklin Grows Up In Search of the Historical Child : Questions for Consideration Suggested Readings About the Contributors Index Foreword Philip J. Greven Why study childhood? As the essays.
... essays in this volume demonstrate, there is much to be learned about the complex and varied experiences of children and adolescents in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British American colonies. The range of contexts is ...
... essay " Some Root of Bitterness ' : Corporal Punishment , Child Abuse , and the Apocalyptic Impulse in Michael Wigglesworth . " 1 In the course of this research , however , I began to realize that , over the course of four centuries ...
... essay called “The Self Shaped and Misshaped: The Protestant Temperament Reconsidered,” I acknowledged the ... essays provide many insights for readers who are imaginative and who can take these individual patches and stitch ...
... essays for their creativity and cooperation and for sending me their essays on time - more or less ! Thanks are also extended to the South Carolina Historical Society and the University of Virginia Press for permission to publish ...
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 | |