TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marten,James
AU  - Greven,Philip J.,Jr
AU  - Greven,Philip J.
TI  - Children in Colonial America
T2  - Children and Youth in America Series
SN  - 9780814764466
AV  - E162 -- .C47 2007eb 
U1  - 305.230973/0903 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Children - America - History - 18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Philip J. Greven -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Race and Colonization -- 1 Indian Children in Early Mexico -- 2 Colonizing Childhood: Religion, Gender, and Indian Children in Southern New England, 1600-1720 -- 3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities: Enslaved Children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 -- "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 -- 5 "I Shall Beat You, So That the Devil Shall Laugh at It": Children, Violence, and the Courts in New Amsterdam -- 6 "Improved" and "Very Promising Children": Growing Up Rich in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina -- "A Dutiful and Affectionate Daughter": Growing Up Rich in Eighteenth-Century 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 -- 8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts -- 9 "My Constant Attension on My Sick Child": The Fragility of Family Life in the World of Elizabeth Drinker -- "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 -- 11 "Let Both Sexes Be Carefully Instructed": Educating Youth in Colonial Philadelphia -- 12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty: Politicizing Youth in Pre-Revolutionary Boston -- "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
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