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American kids in the Age of Oil: ‘Economically worthless but emotionally priceless’

By Erik Curren | November 3, 2014

In colonial America, kids died young. No matter how unwelcome, Death was a frequent visitor at family firesides from Boston to Savannah, where parents could expect to lose, on average, up to half of their brood before they reached adulthood. According to 17th-century Puritan minister Cotton Mather, "a dead child [was] a sight no more surprising than a broken … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: agrarian economy, child labor, Civil War, Cotton Mather, elderly, retirement

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