Dan,

    Very good point.  William Mahone attended VMI, probably on scholarship. 
His father was an inn keeper in Jerusalem, Southampton County, Virginia. 
Father Mahone may have owned a slave or two but he was hardly a planter.
    I don't know the Antebellum period well but my research strategy would 
be to concentrate on the military academies (federal and state), the 
technical schools (i.e. Van Rensaeller Tech), and ministerial training 
colleges.  Each took talented (white) men regardless of background and 
turned them into professionals and "gentlemen."

Harold S. Forsythe
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Subject: Re: Southern Colleges


> How about the state-funded cadets at VMI for a start?
>
> Best,
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch!
>>
>> Anne
>>
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