Children in colonial America

Race and colonization

Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada

Colonizing childhood: religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R. Todd Romero

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

Family and society

Sibling relations in early American childhoods: a cross-cultural analysis / C. Dallett Hemphill

"I shall beat you, so that the Devil shall laugh at it" : children, violence, and the courts in New Amsterdam / Mariah Adin

"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

Cares and tribulations

"Decrepit in their early youth" : English children in Holland and Plymouth Plantation / John J. Navin

Idiocy and the construction of competence in Colonial Massachusetts / Parnel Wickham

"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

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

"Let both sexes be carefully instructed" : educating youth in colonial Philadelphia / Keith Pacholl

From saucy boys to Sons of Liberty: politicizing youth in pre-Revolutionary Boston / J.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.