Calvin jean

1860 · 12904 — New York: A.S. Barnes & Burr 1860. Octavo 8 x 5.5" original brown cloth with brown morocco spine gilt spine titles 2 6 3-251 pp. A school textbook for North Carolina students one of a series of three authored by Calvin H. Wiley a pioneering North Carolina educator. Wiley was the first superintendent of North Carolina Common Schools working to reorganize and expand the school such that literacy increased and North Carolina became an education leader among Southern states. The book was first published in 1851; this is the third revised edition.<br /> <br /> The reader contains descriptions of the various cities and regions of the state statistical information and a series of North Carolina themed essays and poems including "importance of female society in improvement of mind and formation of character" and "advantages of state pride". The text prints statistics regarding enslaved persons in the state and stresses that that state should be welcoming to farmers of all stripes including slaveowners. Another section covers a planned July 1775 slave rebellion emphasizing the violent intentions of the would-be participants and criticizing their British supporters: "they had been directed to fall on the night of the 8th on the white family in which they resided; and after destroying it to set fire to the buildings and proceed thus from plantation to plantation.This plan agrees with that suggested by the celebrated Samuel Johnson a distinguished English critic but a hateful bigot and uniform defender of tyranny." Seven in OCLC for this 1860 edition. A good copy with toning and foxing occasional damp staining to pages wear to covers with chip to lower spine leather. A.S. Barnes & Burr hardcover