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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... relationships and , at least during the first generation or two of the typical New England town , tight community bonds , ensured that parents and children were rarely out of one another's sight and never out of one another's thoughts ...
... relationships , child abuse , and family networks — but their authors place those issues solidly in their colonial contexts ( in the elite families of South Carolina , for instance , training children into adulthood took on forms that ...
... relationships with a range of powerful supernatural entities . With these concerns in mind , I will first address coming of age in traditionalist communities that eschewed Anglo - American missionary efforts before turning to consider ...
... relationship between religion and childhood, while remaining mindful of differences among the region's diverse Algonquian-speaking peoples. In Indian communities, a rich religious world overflowed with supernatural meaning and was ...
... relationships with a powerful deity like Hobbomock , the existence of entities like Squáuanit - " the Woman's God " — and Muckquachuckquànd " the Children's God ” — among the Narragansetts suggested the degree to which the enchanted ...
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 | |