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- North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1915 : October, v.1 : no.2]
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- Date
- October 1915
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1915 : October, v.1 : no.2]
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NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET
The Pre-Revolutionary Printers of North Car
olina : Davis, Steuart, and Boyd
By Stephen B. Weeks.
T. James Davis.
The biography of James Davis, the proto-typographer of
North Carolina, is practically the history of the North Caro¬
lina press for the first generation of its existence. There
were other printers and one other press, but Davis was pre¬
eminently the founder of the art in the colony, and to him
belongs not only the honor of introducing, but also of estab¬
lishing this great civilizing and educating agency.
With the exception of Georgia, [North Carolina was the
last of the original thirteen colonies to receive the printing
press. The reasons for this are numerous and obvious. The
Southern colonies tended to reproduce the landed gentry of
England, not her village communities. The form of govern¬
ment interfered; the New England colonies were practically
self-governing bodies from the beginning, but not so with
those at the South; they were under either royal or proprie¬
tary governments, and few privileges were accorded them.
No American colony saw her efforts for autonomy, or what¬
ever seemed an approach to self-government, more often or
more rudely interfered with than did North Carolina.
The first settlements in North Carolina were made by indi-
vidual immigrants, who roved over a vast and fertile region
and took up land where fancy dictated, and not by immi¬
grants coming in a body, as was the case in Massachusetts and
Connecticut. This method of settlement was favored by the.
mildness of the climate, the fertility of the soil, and the com¬
parative peaceableness of the Indians.
Nor were the first settlers educated, in the broadest sense.
There were educated men and gentlemen among them, but
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