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Re:My Web is Text Based by nazgulnarsil on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:27PM (#488314)
There was no public education on any sort of large scale until at least the 1840's, and not really widespread until the reconstruction era government.
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Re:My Web is Text Based by jibiki on Friday February 20, 2009 @12:18AM (#488350)
That's fascinating. What I was taught about education in that era involved the whole "1 room schoolhouse" thing (which probably says a lot about the quality of the public education I received.)
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