Record #:

21821

Author(s):

Lockley, Timothy J.

Abstract:

This article looks at how public poor relief was conceived and utilized as a social tool, with a particular interest in the emphasis placed on mass education by reformers in the 1840s and 1850s. Buncombe County and Asheville are used as a case study.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 1, Jan 2003, p28-51, il, por, f

Subject(s):

Buncombe County--History; Public Poor Relief