A Little Commonwealth
Family Life in Plymouth Colony
by John Demos
201 pages· 2000· ISBN 9780195128901
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The year 2000 marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of A Little Commonwealth by John Demos, the highly regarded study of family life in the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Basing his work on physical artifacts, wills, estate inventories, and a variety of legal and official enactments, Demos portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships, emphasizing those of husband and wife, parent and child, and master and servant.
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