Scholar Kenneth Lockridge & his successors showed that literacy was higher in New England & the mid-Atlantic colonies than in the South, & higher in the cities than in the countryside. Traders & shopkeepers were more literate than farmers.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Reading - 18C American Woman with a Book
Scholar Kenneth Lockridge & his successors showed that literacy was higher in New England & the mid-Atlantic colonies than in the South, & higher in the cities than in the countryside. Traders & shopkeepers were more literate than farmers.
