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You might also want to take a look at Fischer and Kelly, "Bound Away; VA and
the Westward Movement" (University Press of VA., etc., 2000) His analysis
and approaches are comparable to "Albion's Seed".
Paul
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Nancy
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On Dec 3, 2008, at 8:26 PM, Cynthia McDaniel wrote:
> According to Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer, literacy in VA
> during
> the 17th century depended upon your station in life. Among the
> gentry,
> almost 100% were literate. They educated their children with private
> tutors. Below that rank, the figure of literacy declines:
>
> Status of Father Male Female
> High 100% 100%
> High Middle 87 80
> Middle 80 17
> Lower Middle 44 20
> Lower 50(?) 5.3 (I suspect the first figure for males
is wrong
> since it is higher that the figure for the lower middle class...but
> that's
> what Fischer says.)
>
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