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The Popular Education Question In Antebellum South Carolina, 1800-1860, Brian A. Robinson
The Popular Education Question In Antebellum South Carolina, 1800-1860, Brian A. Robinson
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation reviews the struggle for popular education in Antebellum South Carolina. It contends that the failure of popular education in South Carolina was not a foregone conclusion nor was it mistake by school administration or state leaders, but instead, the failure to provide education for the white majority was the result of an intended goal. This project concludes that South Carolina remained without a system of public schools for the majority of citizens because those who opposed general education firmly believed popular education held the seeds of revolution while ignorance the better tool to perpetuate the status quo.
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