In this textbook, The History of Virginia for the Use of Schools, Mary Tucker Magill writes about Bacon’s Rebellion from a Lost Cause perspective. Notably, in this telling, she leaves out the contributions of enslaved people, and she does not distinguish between Native nations. The Virginia State Board of Education required the use of this textbook, written for students in the fourth and fifth grades, in teaching Virginia history for more than forty years, beginning in 1873, when it was initially published.
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