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The moment a slave child was born they were property and many were sold away from their parents as young as 2 years old. Slaves were also prohibited by law to learn to read and write. A person who taught slaves to read could be fined or jailed. The main reason this was this way is because if you want to keep people as slaves you don't want them to be able to read, think, or write ideas. Hitler when he invaded Poland closed all the schools, killed the teachers, and didn't want the children to learn because he saw it as a slave state. So, the southern slave child couldn't go to school nor learn to read or write. They were meant to be slaves ONLY.

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