How Colonial Families and Communities they created were reshaped in Colonial America

How Colonial Families and Communities they created were reshaped in Colonial America

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The family is the component of the community and the colonies have reshaped the colonial families and communities in terms of roles of individual members of the family, protocol, and education of the children as follows: Men had the privilege most opportunities and the majority of them were farmers who planted crops for domestic and commercial purposes. The rich men owned slaves who provided labours in plantations, and some held offices as town officials or colonial assemblies’ representatives Women did not have the privilege of opportunities and most of them worked around the family home and farm by doing house cleaning, raising the children and looking after gardens and livestock. They did sewing of the family’s clothes and made the soap, candles run shops, taverns and inns, worked as cooks, bakers, midwives and teachers and few managed large plantations.

Children were expected to do their duties around the house, and since most families had little money to educate their children, boys learned skills of their fathers and girls learned skills of their mothers. Education provision was based on location and wealth; poor children received little education while wealthy families’ children got quality education as they could employ private tutors, or send their children to England for better education

Colonies along Upper Saddle River utilized fertile soils and as a result, plantations emerge and tobacco became the cash crop for the colonies. Farmers used servants and slaves to cultivate the land, and since the plantations were spread far apart along the rivers, no sense of community developed among the settlers and very few towns arose in this region.

Reference

Reich, J. R. (2010). Colonial America. Upper Saddle River.

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