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- Some... their master or mistress actually taught them to read and write. But the vast majority had had no access to education at all. And they realized that education was critical to advancement as free people in this society. As well as, many of them, being deeply religious, wanted to be able to read the Bible.
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Jun 17, 2020 · States fighting to hold on to slavery began tightening literacy laws in the early 1830s. In April 1831, Virginia declared that any meetings to teach free African Americans to read or write...
- Colette Coleman
Sep 5, 2021 · From the moment US Army troops arrived in southern communities, newly freed people sought ways to gain education—and, particularly, to learn to read and write. “In slavery, the very act of learning to read had become a secret form of resistance…”
Dec 8, 2017 · As formerly enslaved Americans battled to become literate, the only books available to them were written by white supremacists and condescending abolitionists. By Heather Andrea...
- Heather Andrea Williams
Jan 12, 2022 · Unfortunately, in the United States, there was a time when certain individuals were prohibited from learning to read or write based on the color of their skin. Historically, black people were not allowed to read, write, or even own a book because of anti-literacy laws.
By the 1850s, the legal codes of only four Southern states - North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia - prohibited the teaching of individual slaves to read and write, and Virginia's law did not ban owners from teaching their own slaves.
Many slaves did learn to read through Christian instruction, but only those whose owners allowed them to attend. Some slave owners would only encourage literacy for slaves because they needed someone to run errands for them and other small reasons. They did not encourage slaves to learn to write.
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Jan 17, 2024 · There is overwhelming evidence that nearly all children can learn to read. But in schools across the country, many students — especially students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities — are not yet skillful readers.
