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To: metmom
You know why your research was wrong on the literacy rate during the American Revolution?

They did not include slaves when calculating it.

Should we reinstate slavery?

2,424 posted on 12/22/2005 9:35:59 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

The literary rate was only 90% in New England. The south had hordes of illiterate whites, indeed some of the planter class in Virginia were near illilerate. New England had the highest literary rate on the planet back then.


2,434 posted on 12/22/2005 10:06:40 PM PST by Torie
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To: Luis Gonzalez; metmom
Gonzalez ol' buddy 'Ur making some pretty bizarre logical connections there.

In fact, connections so bizarre those connections do not exist, 'cept in that cesspool of a mind there.

SSoooOOOOOOOOOooo..
Answer your question -- Should we reinstate slavery?

Answer your question to why -- Should we reinstate slavery to get a good read on a historical literacy rate?? LOL goofball.

Gonzalez ol' buddy, 'U a velly funny man.

Wolf
2,437 posted on 12/22/2005 10:15:30 PM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

They also did not include Native Americans, who lived on the continent.

If I only count the members of my household, we have a 100% literacy rate. And every member was educated in a public school. Pretty good results from those incompetent public schools, huh?

;-)


2,764 posted on 12/27/2005 9:15:13 AM PST by 2nsdammit (By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
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