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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... parents and children were rarely out of one another's sight and never out of one another's thoughts . The entire Puritan enterprise depended on their successful childrearing . That intensity emerges in this passage from a famous Puritan ...
... parents of legend), but Mintz does point out that New Englanders created childhoods that were much different from those of children living in the South. Early in the colonial period, the extraordinary threats to the health of children ...
... parents fought to form stable families characterized by love and grief; some slave children even found time to play. Yet another group of children with unique experiences were the sons and daughters of American Indians, who, like ...
... parents prepared them for it . Harvey J. Graff also suggested that American children have followed a number of " conflicting paths " shaped by ethnicity , economics , and gender , among other factors , but , in focusing on the process ...
... parents who cared for their children at home delivered formal , memorized speeches on the meaning of life and the way the child should behave . When the boy or girl was six years old , the age of discretion , each parent offered a ...
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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 | |