Assuming that the slaves were owned by American masters, they were forced to learn English.
in the kitchen
Because if they did learn, they learn how to rebel. then the might rebel and escape.
We learn about families that are brutal and do inhumane behaviors on their slaves.
Most Roman slaves never learned to read or write, those that did were either taught by another educated slave, or their master sent them to a Gramaticus (school) to learn. Also some slaves were teachers.
As Winston Churchill once said, "thosewho do not learn history are doomed to repeat it".Basically if you don't learn about the mistakes we made as a people, we might make them again, for we learn from are mistakes. for example in a hundred years if we didn't learn about the slaves in the 1900s we may go to say Japan and make them our slaves because they look different.
It was illegal for slaves to be educated. However, many slaves found ways to become educated without their masters knowing. Some masters were kind, to some degree, and allowed their slaves to learn. Those slaves taught other slaves.
African Slaves Influence in 19 Century
so they can learn to read and write
No, she did not learn how to read or write because none of the slaves were allowed to be taught in case they used it for communication to escape.
Mr. Auld taught Fredrick Douglas that slaves weren't suppose to learn how to read. In Mr.Auld's view if a slave learned to read and write they would not be fit to be a slave.
The reason is because they want to learn