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Contents Acknowledgments viii Foreword ix Philip J. Greven Introduction 1 James Marten Part I. Race and Colonization: Introduction 15 1 Indian Children in Early Mexico 17 Dorothy Tanck de Estrada 2 Colonizing Childhood: Religion, Gender, and Indian Children in Southern New England, 1600-1720 43 R. Todd Romero 3 Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities: Enslaved Children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 Audra Abee Diptee 64 Documents: The Younger Sort Reverence the Elder: A Pilgrim Describes Indian Childrearing 83 I Have Often Been Overcome While Thinking On It: A Slave Boy¿s Life 85 Part II. Family and Society: Introduction 101 4 Sibling Relations in Early American Childhoods: a Cross-Cultural Analysis C. Dallett Hemphill 103 5 ¿I shall beat you, so that the Devil shall laugh at it¿: Children, Violence, and the Courts in New Amsterdam 121 Mariah Adin 6 "Improved" and "very promising children": Growing Up Rich in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina 141 Darcy Fryer Documents: A Dutiful and Affectionate Daughter: Eliza Lucas of South Carolina 159 A Most Agreeable Family: Philip Vickers Fithian Meets the Carters 164 Part III. Cares and Tribulations: Introduction 171 7 "Decrepit In Their Early Youth": English Children in Holland and Plymouth Plantation 173 John J. Navin 8 Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts 193 Parnel Wickham 9 "My Constant Attension on My Sick Child": The Fragility of Family Life in the World of Elizabeth Drinker 213 Helena M. Wall Documents: I Had Eight Birds Hatcht In One Nest: Anne Bradstreet Writes about Parenthood 232 Part IV. Becoming Americans: Introduction 237 10 From German Catholic Girls to Colonial American Women: Girlhood in the French Gulf South and the British Mid-Atlantic Colonies 239 Lauren Ann Kattner 11 ¿Let both sexes be carefully instructed¿: Educating Youth in Colonial Philadelphia 263 Keith Pacholl 12 From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty: Politicizing Youth in Pre-Revolutionary Boston 281 John L. Bell Documents: Though I Was Often Beaten for My Play: The Autobiography of John Barnard 301 A Bookish Inclination: Benjamin Franklin Grows Up 308 In Search of the Historical Child: Questions for Consideration 319 Suggested Readings 325 About the Contributors 340 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
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.