Details

Description

xiii, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

Family life through history

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The role of family -- Folkways -- Family structure -- The role of father -- Patriarch -- Wise and seasonable counsels -- Educator -- Provider -- Protector -- Estate builder -- The role of mother -- Women as wives -- Women as mothers -- Women as housewives -- The role of children -- Children as family -- Children as learners -- Children as workers -- The role of servants and slaves -- Servants -- Race-based slavery.

Subject

Families -- United States -- History -- 17th century.

Families -- United States -- History -- 18th century.

North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Added Author

Volo, Dorothy Denneen, 1949-

Added Title

Family life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America

Other Form:

Original 0313331995

ISBN

0313024650 (e-Book)

9780313024658 (e-Book)

0313331995 (alk. paper)

9780313331992 (alk. paper)