“There had been pious concern [at the University of North Carolina] that French taught by a Frenchman might inculcate immoralities. The university’s president, David Swain, recommended to the Board of Trustees that any tutor would have to be ‘an educated American.’ This nativist injunction may not have been unconnected with the sad tale of Charles […]
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French taught by Frenchman left memorable legacy
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged charles marey, conjectures of order, david swain, michael o'brien, university of north carolina on March 16, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
A Southerner views ‘old maids’ and women’s rights
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged benjamin sherwood hedrick, conjectures of order, ellen thompson, michael o'brien, old maids, second national woman's rights convention, worcester mass on July 3, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
” ‘I suppose you have already heard of the woman’s rights convention a few weeks ago in Worcester, [Mass.]’ Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick of North Carolina told his fiancee, Ellen Thompson. ‘I used to think all that was said about such things was mere talk. But there are a number of persons now in Cambridge who […]
‘Some did not know N.C. even had a university….’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged conjectures of order, david swain, francis l hawks, michael o'brien, new bern nc, university of north carolina on November 11, 2014 | 3 Comments »
“Francis L. Hawks of Newbern, North Carolina, the Episcopal minister of Calvary Church in New York, a historian, and the founder of a New York Review, felt the force of these condescensions and explained them to David Swain in 1860. In Hawks’s experience, Northerners ‘thought that the people in the South were a set of […]
A crack in the wall that kept Jews from office
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged conjectures of order, jacob henry, michael o'brien, nc catholics, nc jews on November 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“[By 1840] only North Carolina in the South did not grant civil equality [to Jews] and it would not do so until 1868, though efforts to remedy this were made in the 1850s. In practice, however, Jews could be elected to office, as was Jacob Henry to the House of Commons in 1808, because almost […]
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