The Children of Spring Street

The Bioarchaeology of Childhood in a 19th Century Abolitionist Congregation

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Meredith A. B. Ellis

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Bioarchaeology and Social Theory

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This book examines how the shifts in the early 19th century in New York City affected children in particular. Indeed, one could argue that within this context, that “children” and “childhood” came into being. In order to explore this, the skeletal remains of the children buried at the small, local, yet politically radical Spring Street Presbyterian Church are detailed. Population level analyses are combined with individual biological profiles from sorted burials and individual stories combed from burial records and archival data. What emerges are life histories of children—of infants, toddlers, younger children, older children, and adolescents—during this time of transition in New York City. When combined with historical data, these life histories, for instance, tell us about what it was like to grow up in this changing time in New York City

Author Biography:

Meredith A.B. Ellis holds a PhD in Anthropology from Syracuse University. She also holds Master’s Degrees in Anthropology and English Language and Literature. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University. Her research interests include social bioarchaeology, the bioarchaeology of childhood, the 19th century United States, and health and inequality. She has worked on the Spring Street Presbyterian Church collection, the China Gulch faunal collection, and the Donner Party Alder Creek Campsite collection.

Release date Australia

August 9th, 2018

Author

Meredith A. B. Ellis

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Edition

1st ed. 2019

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22 Illustrations, color; 5 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 143 p. 27 illus., 22 illus. in color.

Pages

143

Series

Bioarchaeology and Social Theory

ISBN-13

9783319926865

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27877103

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