Title: For Adam's sake : a family saga in colonial New England /
Authors: Di Bonaventura, Allegra.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hempstead, Joshua,; Jackson, Adam,; Slavery Connecticut New London History; Slaves Family relationships Connecticut New London History; Slaveholders Connecticut New London Biography.; Slaves Connecticut New London Biography.; New London (Conn.) History; Connecticut Church history; Connecticut History; Connecticut History
Abstract: Uses the diary of an American colonial in pre-Revolutionary New England to discuss slavery, the family, and everyday life of the time period.
Contents: "As in the Beginning of the World" -- The Rogerenes -- "Fore-runners of evil" -- "Brought up in learning" -- "Fornication among you" -- "One flesh" -- "She was taken away from me wrongfully" -- "The ways of providence" -- A Higher Court -- "A pestilence into that land" -- "Adam is come" -- Bream Cove and beyond -- "Their children's children" -- "Adam worked all day" -- "The wonderful work of God".