Family History: Family in Colonial America  

In some ways, the family unit in colonial times played much the same role that it does today, but there are some notable differences. For example, the colonial era family took on many roles generally played today by public agencies. There was als...
Subject: work
Transcript: [alice kessler-harris:] in the colonial period, both men And women worked and both men And women worked in the household. But the household was quite