Children in Colonial America /

Children in Colonial America / / ed. by James Marten.

The 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 enco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Adin, Mariah,
Bell, J. L.,
Diptee, Audra Abbe,
Estrada, Dorothy Tanck de,
Fryer, Darcy R.,
Greven, Philip J.,
Hemphill, C. Dallett,
Kattner, Lauren Ann,
Marten, James,
Navin, John J.,
Pacholl, Keith,
Romero, R. Todd,
Wall, Helena M.,
Wickham, Parnel,
TeilnehmendeR:
Greven, Philip J.
HerausgeberIn:
Marten, James,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Children and Youth in America ; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Race and Colonization
  • 1 Indian Children in Early Mexico
  • 2 Colonizing Childhood
  • 3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities
  • Documents
  • “The Younger Sort Reverence the Elder”
  • “I Have Often Been Overcome While Thinking on It”
  • Part II Family and Society
  • 4 Sibling Relations in Early American Childhoods
  • 5 “I Shall Beat You, So That the Devil Shall Laugh at It”
  • 6 “Improved” and “Very Promising Children”
  • Documents
  • “A Dutiful and Affectionate Daughter”
  • “A Most Agreeable Family”
  • Part III Cares and Tribulations
  • 7 “Decrepit in Their Early Youth”
  • 8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts
  • 9 “My Constant Attension on My Sick Child”
  • Documents
  • “I Had Eight Birds Hatcht in One Nest”
  • Part IV Becoming Americans
  • 10 From German Catholic Girls to Colonial American Women
  • 11 “Let Both Sexes Be Carefully Instructed”
  • 12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty
  • Documents
  • “Though I Was Often Beaten for My Play”
  • “A Bookish Inclination”
  • In Search of the Historical Child
  • Suggested Readings
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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