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Learning to read and write in Colonial America Cover Image Book

Learning to read and write in Colonial America / E. Jennifer Monaghan.

Monaghan, E. Jennifer, 1933- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 1558494863
  • ISBN: 9781558494862
  • Physical Description: xiii, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; [2005]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-460) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Literacy and the law in orthodox New England -- Literacy and the Indians of Massachusetts Bay -- Books read by children at home and at school -- Death and literacy in two devout Boston families -- The literacy mission of the S.P.G -- Literacy and the Mohawks -- Schools, schoolteachers, and schoolchildren -- The rise of the spelling book -- Literacy instruction and the enslaved -- Writing instruction --The new world of children's books -- Literacy in three families of the 1770s.

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