It was illegal to teach a slave or a "free person of color" to read and write. Anyone caught doing so was often ordered by the court to be whipped in public. Slave owners believed if a slave was...
no they weren't, it was considered illegal because if they could learn to read, if they were freed or escaped they could make a life for themselves more easily. if they couldnt, they were still in...
A slave can learn to read but the whites wouldn't want them to because they use the slaves for working on fields and no paying any attention to education. The whites didn't want them to get their...