Engaging Children in Vast Early America (Hardcover, 1)

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 Hijar-Padres Expeditions