EDGAR WALLACE KNIGHT COLLECTION, #3904, 1634-1950
Source material from various depositories collected by Knight, University of North Carolina
professor of Educational History, in preparation for A Documentary History of Education
in the South Before 1860 (1949-1954, 5v.). The collection
includes letters, wills, petitions, personal diaries, and other materials concerning
education and other cultural and social aspects of the antebellum South. Papers contain
extracts from the minutes of the Commissioners of Free Schools in South Carolina (1856-1864);
an essay by African-American writer and poet George Moses Horton (n.d.); and a letter to
Horace Mann from John Stafford of North Carolina, expressing antislavery sentiments (1848). Photoprints.