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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... Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico , Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries ( Stanford , CA : Stanford University Press , 1992 ) , 217 ; Jaime Cuadriello , " Tierra de prodigios : la ventura como destino , ” Los pinceles ...
... cultural, and religious practices to the tough realities that arrived with European colonization. Children were also often a focus of colonialism in the region. English colonists—who were frequently obsessed with the fortunes of their ...
... cultural persistence and adaptation for both traditionalist and Christian Indian communities . While the arrival of Europeans sometimes wrought catastrophic changes in Indian country , religion nevertheless remained essential to the ...
... culturally constructed, something that was just as surely framed by individual accomplishments and religious practice as it was reflected in material culture and the organization of space. Given the fragmentary nature of the sources it ...
... cultural bulwark against colonization. In this way, the passage from childhood to adulthood was as much about coming of age as it was bound up with the social and cultural renewal of the community. Children probably approached such ...
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 | |