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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... 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 impressive—from the indigenous peoples of the east coast and ...
... learned but also what they learned; Puritan ideas about religion and gender collided with Native American notions in New England; and the plantation system forced children like Broteer/Venture into harsh economic roles. These processes ...
... learned the Aztec language (Náhuatl) and systematically collected data from native informants concerning the religion, government, laws, history, medicine, education, and customs of the Indians. This effort was carried out over a fifty ...
... learned the sacred rites of the priestly class and most concentrated on legal and military studies. All had to gain understanding of the pictorial codices, decipher the sacred calendar, memorize historical and religious accounts ...
... learned crafts, and carried out agricultural and construction projects. They also memorized ritual songs. Through manual labor and discipline, strong soldiers were prepared by the state. As in the calmécac, the students lived within the ...
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 | |