Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America (Revised)

Title: Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America (Revised)
Author: Helena M Wall
American History: 1654958
ISBN: 9780674299597
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Section: History | United States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Helena Wall shows what life was like in colonial America, a culture where individuals and family were subordinated to the demands of the community. Using local town, church, and especially court records from every colony, she examines the division of authority between family and community throughout colonial America.

Although this close relationship and its consequences for private life bred many tensions and conflicts, the premises and conditions of that interdependent association persisted even into the nineteenth century. Wall sketches the subsequent changes and outlines the new arrangements of family and community life as the colonies moved toward the formation of a new nation.