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

Author: Helena M Wall

ISBN: 9780674299597

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1995

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

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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.