Engaging Children in Vast Early America (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gossard, Julia M.; White, Holly N. S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Engaging Children in Vast Early America examines the often overlooked roles that children played in moments of contact between Indigenous groups, Europeans, and Africans in North and South America over the course of the seventeenth through nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040124888
• Artikelnr.: 72271055

Autorenporträt

Julia M. Gossard is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University. She is co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and the author of Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the Eighteenth-Century French World (2021). Holly N. S. White is an Adjunct Professor of History at William & Mary. She is co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and author of Negotiating American Childhood: Age-based Laws and the Illusion of Protection in the Early United States (2025).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section 1: Centering Unfree Children in Vast Early America 1.
Into the Household of Joseph Bigelow: Growing up Unfree in Colonial New
England 2. Marronnage and Childhood in Colonial Haiti 3. Capturing Youth:
Reproductive Labor and the Medicalization of Black Girlhood in the Early
Nineteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean Section 2: Uncovering Childhood in
Native North America 4. "To Have Their Children Trained Up in English
Schools": Native American Childhood and Education in the Early American
South 5. A Mixture of Nations: English Captive Children and Food in the
Eighteenth-Century Northeast 6. "From Their Children Born and Those Yet in
the Womb": Children as Political Actors in Southeastern Native American
Petitions, 1600-1730 Section 3: Who Got to Be a Child in Vast Early America
7. From Girls to Mothers: Children in French Canada 8. Children in the
Margins: Enslaved Children in the Livingston Family Papers 9. Sending
Children to Alta California: The Lorenzana and Híjar-Padrés Expeditions