LEADER 05054nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910821227903321 005 20240410034351.0 010 $a0-8147-6446-0 010 $a0-8147-9580-3 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814764466 035 $a(CKB)1000000000765212 035 $a(EBL)2081605 035 $a(OCoLC)913695234 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277816 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11214041 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277816 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10254297 035 $a(PQKB)11336103 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2081605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2081605 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10280023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3025611 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3025611 035 $a(DE-B1597)548411 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814764466 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000765212 100 $a20060616d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aChildren in colonial America$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by James Marten ; with a foreword by Philip J. Greven 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 1 $aChildren and youth in America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-5716-2 311 $a0-8147-5715-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index. 327 $aPart I. 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 -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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 attension 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 -- Part IV. 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. 330 $a The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the indigenous families whom they encountered, and those children's life experiences enrich and complicate our understanding of colonial America. Through essays, primary documents, and contemporary illustrations, Children in Colonial America examines the unique aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth a 410 0$aChildren and youth in America. 606 $aChildren$zUnited States$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aChildren$zUnited States$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aChildren$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aChildren$zAmerica$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1775 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865 607 $aAmerica$xSocial life and customs 607 $aAmerica$xSocial conditions 615 0$aChildren$xHistory 615 0$aChildren$xHistory 615 0$aChildren$xHistory 615 0$aChildren$xHistory 676 $a305.230973/0903 701 $aMarten$b James Alan$0867960 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821227903321 996 $aChildren in colonial America$93973097 997 $aUNINA