What would your life have been like if you grew up between 1790 and 1830? What would your education look like? How would you spend your time? Explore this page to better understand what childhood and education were like during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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*Note: These characters are fictionalized. They do not follow the exact day-to-day of any specific individuals living in Newport during this time period but rather paint a broad picture of what life could have been like for children in the years following the Revolution. If these stories align with the historical record, they are mere coincidences.Â