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The New England Primer

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About “The New England Primer”

The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and formed the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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1688

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