Colonial America
1741, Education & Literacy
Dr. Kane
mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM
Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30 Social Science 60S
Friday, October 20
coming up
- Argumentation paper Oct 27
- stay caught up with Lepore!
today's class
- what happened in 1741?
- education in early America
- how do newspapers work?
what happened in 1741?
- the plot, 5-14, 60-63
- Quack & Cuffee (Philipse), 59-63, 96-97, 102-106
- Caesar (Vaarck), 36-38, 89-90, 137-141
- Jack & Gerardus Comfort, 130-135, 144-150
- Mary Burton, 36-39, 78-79, 96-97
- Peggy Kerry, 36-39, 85-89
- John Hughson, 36-39, 108-110, 126-128, 137-138
New England education
- New England is weird!
- emphasis on education for religious purposes
- boys educated for religious leadership
- girls educated for household management
New England primer
New England primer
the rest of early America
- 1730s literacy rates begin to rise
- education dependent on class
- long distance & inter-colonial trade
- reputation over long distances
early American universities
- primarily religious
- educate ministers, missionaries, and Indian missionaries
- dependent on slave labor, esp women
- how do other professionals get educated?
Harvard
UAlbany
Indian education
- Felicite at Ursuline convent girls' school, 1620-1690
- John Sassamon at Harvard, 1660s
- John Johnson at Princeton, 1740s
- Samson Occom at Dartmouth, 1750s
news in early America
- who needs to know "news"?
- shipping reports, government reports
- theater as means of dissent
- John Peter Zenger vs. William Cosby
- is it libel if it's true?
- social order & fear of political parties