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A Pastoral Vision of School and Slavery in 19th Century Debate
The fragmentary text presents a sprawling, late 19th or early 20th century schoolroom scene and a moral lecture. It mingles fiction about a harsh master, oppressive discipline, and vivid classroom details with extended digressions on public virtue, abolitionism, and the role of church and state in slavery debates. It juxtaposes evocative memories of schooling with polemical discourse on liberty, reform, and the responsibilities of citizens and educators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yan Young
Tring
Raya
Wiley Uransthy
Ida
Sean
Kiel
Phas
Phil
Frank