Note 438 — Chapter VI · Attempts to Control Textbooks

Ibid., Vol. XXII (1857), p. 557. Again in an article on “Southern School Books,” Vol. XXV (1858), p. 117. Geographies and readers received similar criticism, because they, too, contained “invidious” comparisons or sought to “inculcate improper precepts” in the minds of the children on the subject of slavery. In 1868 Willson’s Intermediate Readers were condemned because the fourth of the series declared: “The Great Rebellion was a war set on foot for the purpose of destroying the government of the United States.”