Non-planter sons at military colleges were 'significant' examples as
indicated here:
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6259521/Networks-of-military-educators-middle.html
How career networks developed is particularly interesting.
Neil McDonald
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From: "Anne Pemberton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 8:13 PM
Subject: [VA-HIST] Southern Colleges
> In a discussion about "The Education of Henry Adams", someone remarked
> that the colleges in the south were exclusively for the plantation class.
> Can someone provide examples of southern non-planter sons who attended
> college prior to the Civil War?
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