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More Than Met The Eye: Industry In The Antebellum Gulf South, Michael Sean Frawley
More Than Met The Eye: Industry In The Antebellum Gulf South, Michael Sean Frawley
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
1860 was a census year. Census marshals spread out across the United States to record many different aspects of American society, including information on population, agriculture and, most importantly for this study, manufacturing. The antebellum Gulf South has traditionally been viewed as a region with little industrial development. But, both contemporaries and historians based their view of industry in the Gulf South on what was recorded in the census schedules. Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas were portrayed in the census as areas with little industrial development. But, as many historians have discovered, there were errors in the 1860 census, especially errors …
"Teach Us Incessantly": Lessons And Learning In The Antebellum Gulf South, Sarah L. Hyde
"Teach Us Incessantly": Lessons And Learning In The Antebellum Gulf South, Sarah L. Hyde
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Before 1860 people in the Gulf South valued education and sought to extend schooling to residents across the region. Southerners learned in a variety of different settings – within their own homes taught by a family member or hired tutor, at private or parochial schools as well as in public free schools. Regardless of the venue, the ubiquity of learning in the region reveals the importance of education in Southern culture. In the 1820s and 1830s, legislators in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama sought to increase access to education by offering financial assistance to private schools in order to offset tuition …