It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to have private tutors.
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.John Sergeant Wise
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
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Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.
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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
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