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Children in Colonial America

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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 encountered, and those children's life experiences enrich and complicate our understanding of colonial America. Through essays, primary documents, and contemporary illustrations, Children in Colonial America examines the unique aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. The twelve original essays observe a diverse cross-section of children-from indigenous peoples of the east coast and Mexico to Dutch-born children of the Plymouth colony and African-born offspring of slaves in the Caribbean-and explore themes including parenting and childrearing practices, children's health and education, sibling relations, child abuse, mental health, gender, play, and rites of passage. Taken together, the essays and documents in Children in Colonial America shed light on the ways in which the process of colonization shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America.
Foreword by Philip J. GrevenAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJames MartenPart I Race and Colonization1 Indian Children in Early Mexico Dorothy Tanck de Estrada2 Colonizing ChildhoodR. Todd Romero3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial RealitiesAudra Abbe DipteePart II Family and Society4 Sibling Relations in Early American ChildhoodsC. Dallett Hemphill5 "I Shall Beat You, So That the Devil Shall Laugh at It"Mariah Adin6 "Improved" and "Very Promising Children"Darcy FryerPart III Cares and Tribulations7 "Decrepit in Their Early Youth"John J. Navin8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts Parnel Wickham9 "My Constant Attension on My Sick Child"Helena M. WallPart IV Becoming Americans10 From German Catholic Girls to Colonial American WomenLauren Ann Kattner11 "Let Both Sexes Be Carefully Instructed"Keith Pacholl12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of LibertyJ. L. BellIn Search of the Historical Child: Questions for Consideration Suggested ReadingsAbout the ContributorsIndex
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