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Updated: May 16, 2025
A much repeated anecdote attributes Lincoln's detestation of slavery to a slave auction that he witnessed as a small boy; Aycock's first zeal as an educational reformer had an origin that was even more pathetic, for he always carried in his mind his recollection of his own mother signing an important legal document with a cross.
This boy passed as Aycock's slave; but when the conflict between the Liberty Boys and the Tories in that part of the country became desperate, when the patriots were fighting for their lives as well as for the liberties of their country, Aycock's neighbors called on him to do his part. According to all accounts, Aycock was not much of a warrior.
And now under Aycock's governorship North Carolina began to tackle the educational problem with a purpose.
By that time the Southern people had revised their original conception that education was a private and not a public concern; there was now a general acceptance of the doctrine that the mental and physical training of every child, white and black, was the responsibility of the state; Aycock's campaign had worked such a popular revolution on this subject that no politician who aspired to public office would dare to take a contrary view.
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