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Foreword Philip J. Greven ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction James Marten 1
Race and Colonization
Indian Children in Early Mexico Dorothy Tanck de Estrada 13
Colonizing Childhood: Religion, Gender, and Indian Children in Southern New England, 1600-1720 R. Todd Romero 33
Imperial Ideas, Colonial Realities: Enslaved Children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 Audra Abbe Diptee 48
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"The Younger Sort Reverence the Elder": A Pilgrim Describes Indian Childrearing 61
"I Have Often Been Overcome While Thinking on It": A Slave Boy's Life 63
Family and Society
Sibling Relations in Early American Childhoods: A Cross-Cultural Analysis C. Dallett Hemphill 77
"I Shall Beat You, So That the Devil Shall Laugh at It": Children, Violence, and the Courts in New Amsterdam Mariah Adin 90
"Improved" and "Very Promising Children": Growing Up Rich in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina Darcy Fryer 104
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"A Dutiful and Affectionate Daughter": Eliza Lucas of South Carolina 116
"A Most Agreeable Family": Philip Vickers Fithian Meets the Carters 119
Cares and Tribulations
"Decrepit in Their Early Youth": English Children in Holland and PlymouthPlantation John J. Navin 127
Idiocy and the Construction of Competence in Colonial Massachusetts Parnel Wickham 141
"My Constant Attension on My Sick Child": The Fragility of Family Life in the World of Elizabeth Drinker Helena M. Wall 155
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"I Had Eight Birds Hatcht in One Nest": Anne Bradstreet Writes about Parenthood 168
Becoming Americans
From German Catholic Girls to Colonial American Women: Girlhood in the French Gulf South and the British Mid-Atlantic Colonies Lauren Ann Kattner 175
"Let Both Sexes Be Carefully Instructed": Educating Youth in Colonial Philadelphia Keith Pacholl 191
From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty: Politicizing Youth in Pre-Revolutionary Boston J. L. Bell 204
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"Though I Was Often Beaten for My Play": The Autobiography of John Barnard 217
"A Bookish Inclination": Benjamin Franklin Grows Up 222
In Search of the Historical Child: Questions for Consideration 230
Suggested Readings 235
About the Contributors 245
Index 249
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