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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... planter class came to enjoy relative leisure and far less pressure to sustain their parents' religious values. Nevertheless, the priority placed on passing estates down through families placed a different kind of pressure, almost ...
... planters and slaves of the Carolinas, the indentured servants toiling on tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake, to name just a few—and each developed its own approaches to children and to childhood. Purpose and Scope of the Anthology ...
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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 | |