In round (or copperplate) hand, the slope also inclined to the right, but the letters were round, bold, and full. Most popular was the current (or running) hand in which the letters were usually slanted to the right and the words formed without lifting the pen from letter to letter. Copybooks contained engraved specimens of capital and small letters and were published as aids to the teaching of a variety of hands. The rise of private academies in the state early in the nineteenth century coincided with the availability of copybooks that were designed and published by acknowledged writing masters in the North. Penmanship as a deliberate manner of writing was scarcely practiced in North Carolina until the nineteenth century and, with the rise of computers by the end of the twentieth century, was in danger of becoming an educational relic.
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