Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America

by E. Jennifer Monaghan

Book Overview

An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to vibrant life the process of learning to read and write in colonial America. Ranging throughout the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia, she examines the instruction of girls and boys, Native Americans and enslaved Africans, the privileged and the poor, revealing the sometimes wrenching impact of literacy acquisition on the lives of learners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558495819
• ISBN13: 9781558495814
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"