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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... Women: Girlhood in the French Gulf South and the British Mid-Atlantic Colonies Lauren Ann Kattner 11 “Let Both Sexes Be Carefully Instructed”: Educating Youth in Colonial Philadelphia Keith Pacholl 12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty ...
... women , children , servants , slaves , and other neglected groups are quite as integral to a comprehensive understanding of the past as those of lawyers , lords , and ministers of state ; that ... popular culture is far more revealing ...
... Women who died in childbirth were compared to the soldiers who succumbed in battle : each was rewarded with the highest place in the afterlife . The newborn infant also received special attention . The umbilical cord was cut and buried ...
... women. However, in one urban center, the city of Oaxaca, one half of the Indian boys left home by age ten, to work as servants in Spanish houses or to learn a trade as an apprentice, but most children of non-Indians in that city.
... women and girls strewed flowers at the beginning of the parade, and girls performed special dances while waving colored feathers in the air, to prepare the way for the artisan guilds (including boys who were apprentices), municipal ...
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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 | |