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Family of Five at Tea, c. 1765–1770
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Dressed in their finery, this family of five is seated for tea in an extravagant parlor. As a public icon of the family, this portrait was carefully staged in order to portray the family’s moral virtue by way of proper deportment. American colonists, observing these European social standards in newspapers and paintings like the one above, sought to emulate the behavior for themselves.
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October 11, 2012
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Complimentary Access to Electronic Field Trip "The Will of the People"
Colonial Williamsburg’s Gift to the Nation in this election year provides teachers with unique resources to engage students in the study of citizenship and our founding democratic principles. The Electronic Field Trip “The Will of the People” examines the presidential election of 1800, one of the most bitter in U.S. history. Thomas Jefferson explains how negative campaigning and partisan politics have been a part of our political system since the earliest days of the republic.
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In the eighteenth century, children's behaviors directly reflected the social class and breeding of their family, and children were expected to behave much like adults. This lesson uses George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation as a primary source to examine these manners. Students also demonstrate proper deportment through eighteenth-century courtesies (bows and curtseys).
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Quotation of the Month
"What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment give them decent grace;
Blessed with all other requisites to please,
To want the striking elegance of ease;
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully, or standing still."
—Charles Churchill, "The Rosciad," 1761
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