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How did race and class affect access to education? Research is listed for the American Revolution.

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Please note that race and class had strong effects upon access to education in colonial America. For example, because education in colonial America at first was based on European traditions, upper class had access, so socioeconomic class was key.

Because America initially used European education as models, "wealthy girls might be taught by a governess or sent to a convent school to learn the basics of reading and writing. Middle class families could generally only afford to educate their sons and in lower class families neither the boys nor the girls were educated. As America grew, private ...

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