In the Cornelius article, much of it discussed the “rights” given to slaves in the 1800s in each state, and the discrepancy in between. He references a Benjamin Russell in South Carolina who says “we were taught to read… it was against the law to teach a slave to write”. They went on to say that reading was taught against the law there, but there seems to have been no flexing the law when it came to writing. Upon reading this, my initial reaction was disgust. It felt that the community was okay with educating slaves, as they knew that they were able to learn those skills, but did not provide them with the means to express themselves.<\/p>\n
With this thought, I had the question of “How is the skill of reading impaired without the ability to write?” For these slaves, who were surely silenced on a daily basis, writing could have been their outlet. The fact that they were taught to read is very fortunate, but still being denied writing seems very cruel. I imagine that – with the skill of reading – a slave in this time period could have benefited from this outlet or means of communication, at the very least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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