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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... Meets the Carters PART III Cares and Tribulations 7 " Decrepit in Their Early Youth " : English Children in Holland and Plymouth Plantation John J. Navin 8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts.
James Marten, Philip J Greven. 8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts Parnel Wickham 9 “My Constant Attension on My Sick Child”: The Fragility of Family Life in the World of Elizabeth Drinker Helena M. Wall ...
... Idiocy and the Construction of Competence,” for instance, deals with an issue that was confusing to Puritans in England and America alike. But a number of the essays provide bridges between these two fields of inquiry that strengthen ...
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Contents
2 | |
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 | |