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Intro -- Other Books by This Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Prologue -- I. Patterns for the Past -- A Historians Past: Patterns of Thought and Religious Belief in Early America -- The Persistence of Piety -- Temperament and the Self -- Childhood, Temperament, and Religious Experience -- Toward a New Paradigm -- Part Two: The Evangelicals: The Self Suppressed -- II. Authoritarian Families: Modes of Evangelical Child-Rearing -- Pious Parents, Precious Mothers -- The Household -- Embryo-Angels or Infant Fiends? -- Broken Wills: Discipline and Parental Control -- Regular Methods of Living: External Discipline in Evangelical Households -- Shaping the Evangelical Conscience: Shame, Guilt, and Inner Discipline -- The Vanities, Pleasures, and Sins of Youth: The Emergence of Self and Self-Will -- III. "A Habitation of Dragons": Themes of Evangelical Temperaments and Piety -- The New Birth -- "Our Loathsome Corruption and Pollution": Attitudes Toward the Body -- "That Monster, Self" -- Broken Wills and Tender Hearts -- Authoritarian Temperaments: Evangelical Responses to Power -- Soldiers for Christ: Anger, Aggression, and Enemies -- Brides of Christ: Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality -- The Quest for Purity -- Part Three: The Moderates: The Self Controlled -- IV. Authoritative Families: Moderate Modes of Child-Rearing -- The Household Setting -- Innocent Infants -- Bending the Will: Moderate Discipline and Voluntary Obedience -- "Planting the Seeds of Virtue" in Childhood and Youth -- Love and Duty: The Obligations of Connection -- V. Sober, Virtuous, and Pious People: Themes of Moderate Temperaments and Piety -- A Sense of Connections: Organicism and the Chain of Being -- "This Contrariety in Man": The Frailties of Human Nature -- Self-Approbation and Self-Love.

The Pilgrims and Puritans did not arrive on the shores of New England alone. Nor did African men and women, brought to the Americas as slaves. Though it would be hard to tell from the historical record, European colonists and African slaves had children, as did the indigenous families whom they encountered, and those children's life experiences enrich and complicate our understanding of colonial America.Through essays, primary documents, and contemporary illustrations, Children in Colonial America examines the unique aspects of childhood in the American colonies between the late sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. The twelve original essays observe a diverse cross-section of children-from indigenous peoples of the east coast and Mexico to Dutch-born children of the Plymouth colony and African-born offspring of slaves in the Caribbean-and explore themes including parenting and childrearing practices, children's health and education, sibling relations, child abuse, mental health, gender, play, and rites of passage.Taken together, the essays and documents in Children in Colonial America shed light on the ways in which the process of colonization shaped childhood, and in turn how the experience of children affected life in colonial America