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Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 4:
American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607 - 1692
- Focus on the nature of colonial family
life, particularly as it was affected by different demographic patterns (for
example, frequent childbearing, frequent remarriage, and strong competition
for women). A particular focus might be on attitudes toward children in an
age of large families and infant deaths.
- Focus on the slave trade from Africa,
considering how it affected those Africans who were caught in it as well as
their descendants. A particular question might be that of the survival of
African cultural elements among the slaves.
- Examine what happened to Africans that
were imported as slaves to New World locations such as Brazil, Spanish America,
the British Caribbean, and the French Caribbean. Compare that to what happened
to Africans imported as slaves to England's Chesapeake and southern colonies
in North America.
- Discuss womens lives in the seventeenth
century, including economic functions, religion, marriage, and child raising.
The focus might be on the economic and social importance of women in agrarian
colonial communities, as well as on the legal and political restrictions that
kept them tied to men.
- Explore the values of the traditional
New Englander as both morally rigid Puritan and hard-bargaining
Yankee. Examine the expansion of New England in
the spread of settlements west. (Places like northern Ohio, Kansas, Oregon,
and later Hawaii had a high proportion of New Englanders in their populations.)
- Review the scientific achievements that
were going on in seventeenth-century Europe while the colonies were developing
in North America. (Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Boyle, and
Newton)
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