Talking Black
During colonial and antebellum American history, slaveholding states enacted anti-literacy laws that prohibited teaching enslaved people how to read or write. Later iterations of these laws criminalized the education of African Americans—enslaved or free—in response to conspiracies an...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Columbia Journal of Race and Law |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/SALT/article/domains-and-directions-in-tblt/index.php/cjrl/article/view/6116 |