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Title Children in colonial America / edited by James Marten ; with a foreword by Philip J. Greven.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2007]
©2007

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 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.2309 CHILDREN    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.23 C536CC    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Children and youth in America
Children and youth in America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.
Contents Foreword / Philip J Greven -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / James Marten -- pt. 1. Race and colonization -- 1. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- 2. Colonizing childhood : religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R. Todd Romero -- 3. Imperial ideas, colonial realities : enslaved children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 / Audra Abee Diptee -- Documents -- "The younger sort reverence the elder" : a pilgrim describes Indian childrearing -- "I have often been overcome while thinking on it" : a slave boy's life -- pt. 2. Family and society -- 4. Sibling relations in early American childhoods : a cross-cultural analysis / C. Dallett Hemphill -- 5. "I shall beat you, so that the devil shall laugh at it" : children, violence, and the courts in New Amsterdam / Mariah Adin -- 6. "Improved" and "very promising children" : growing up rich in eighteenth-century South Carolina / Darcy Fryer -- Documents -- "A dutiful and affectionate daughter" : Eliza Lucas of South Carolina -- "A most agreeable family" : Philip Vickers Fithian meets the Carters --
pt. 3. Cares and tribulations -- 7. "Decrepit in their early youth" : English children in Holland and Plymouth plantation / John J. Navin -- 8. Idiocy and the construction of competence in colonial Massachusetts / Parnel Wickham -- 9. "My constant attention on my sick child" : the fragility of family life in the world of Elizabeth Drinker / Helena M. Wall -- Documents -- "I had eight birds hatcht in one nest" : Anne Bradstreet writes about parenthood -- pt. 4. Becoming Americans -- 10. From German catholic girls to colonial American 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 : politicizing youth in pre-revolutionary Boston / John L. Bell -- Documents -- "Though I was often beaten for my play" : the autobiography of John Barnard -- "A bookish inclination" " Benjamin Franklin grows up -- In search of the historical child : questions for consideration -- Suggested readings -- About the contributors -- Index.
Subject United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
Children -- United States -- History -- 16th century.
Children -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
Children -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
America -- Social life and customs.
America -- Social conditions.
Children -- America -- History -- 18th century.
Added Author Marten, James Alan.
ISBN 0814757154 cloth alkaline paper
9780814757154 cloth alkaline paper
0814757162 paperback alkaline paper
9780814757161 paperback alkaline paper
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