EDUC247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indentured Servant, Smallpox, Puritans
16 May 2016
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Feb. 12 th : diversity in the colonies: so many different groups and regions. Three different aspects: native americans/indians, blacks/slaves, colonial families: wealthier families, regional variations. Native americans: life is very different than puritan families and other colonies. Fewer adults hover around worrying about your soul, caring about what you do, telling you how to dress. Youth is marked by well defined rites of passage. Go under special rituals and ceremony to transition to youth to young adulthood (vision quests for boys, girls spend 2-4 weeks in a menstrual cabin of sorts?). Norms for good and bad behavior are not the same across gender: some white colonist thought freedom was neat and attractive. A number of whites who were captures by indians decided to stay with them, young and old. However, most of the contact between the whites and indians was not friendly.
