1861 STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE. Superb Civil War Periodical for the Young. Extensive War & Slavery Content. Manuscript Moderator Straight

Moderator Straight

Charles Haddon Spurgeon gave a pre-publication copy to his future wife with this inscription upon the fly-leaf

this artifact is itself a sort of working metaphor of the process of commoditizing and infantilizing the black population in America during reconstruction and into the early 20th century via minstrel shows

and emulation abroad combine to indicate that universal amelioration our return to God had induced

and threatened to be degraded

1861 STUDENT AND SCHOOLMATE. Superb Civil War Periodical for the Young. Extensive War & Slavery Content. Manuscript Moderator StraightRather scarce Civil War era periodical. The Student and Schoolmate had initially been two separate periodicals [The Student; The Schoolmate], but joined together in 1858, under the editorship of William T. Adams, i. e. Oliver Optic. The new format provided both practical help for student and teacher in a final section of each month's paper, and fiction and non fiction narratives, heavily illustrated, for the bulk of it, focusing on history, morality,