Reading, writing, and reasoning are what separate human beings from the beasts of the earth. In learning to do these things, a slave also learns to be a human after a life of being a beast of burden. Frederick Douglass, after about twelve years of life, learned to read and write and I believe this was the key to his discontentment and his eventual freedom.

Law did not allow slaves, to be able to read or write. In fact, if a person, white or black, was caught teaching a slave either or both of these, they could be punished according to the law. Accordi

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