The Politically Incorrect Guide to The South by Clint Johnson

Author:Clint Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Perseus
Published: 2010-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

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It was against the law in the South to teach slaves to read and write. But, like many laws, it was widely ignored. Nat Turner, the leader of the bloody 1830 revolt in Virginia in which more than one hundred white men, women, and children were killed in their beds, could read and write as well as any white man. His owners had taught him. In 1851 (a decade before he won the nickname “Stonewall”), Virginia Military Institute professor Thomas J. Jackson taught young slaves how to read the Bible. Though this was a clear violation of the law, no one in Lexington ever complained or admonished him, including Governor John Letcher, who had a home in Lexington and was a good friend of Jackson before the war.

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