Ocean State Libraries

"In this newly revised edition of Colonial Life, young readers will meet the hardworking people of a colonial community, learn about the importance of family members, and discover the roles that religion and education played in people's lives more than two hundred years ago. They will also learn about: how people traveled from place to place; how adults and children; how a plantation was run, and the impact of the slave trade."--

Text and drawings depict varying aspects of the colonists' lifestyles in the South, New England, and the Mid-Atlantic colonies.

A collection of thirteen projects and recipes which relate to the colonial of American home and the way of life there.

A brief look at colonial life in Jamestown and in the New England settlements in the early seventeenth century.