To teach a slave to read or write was illegal. Back then it was thought they would be "misfit" to work in the fields or in the big house. So they never taught them. Some, of course, taught themselves by listening carefully to what the overseer and master said and tried to learn it themselves. Or to repeat it numerous times. So to teach a slave to read or write was illegal back in the olden, dark, days.
It was believed that to teach a slave to read or write was to invite and uprising.
It was illegal.
The slave code, i go to connections too:)
Fairly certain it's slave codes
It was illegal to what? Can you please provide more context so I can assist you better?
No education. He was a slave so it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write. He patented a shoe design in 1867. He didn't invent shoes.
He was born a slave in Maryland, around 1830 but became an inventor. He learned to read and write from his master child when it was against the law to teach a slave to read and write. When he was a teen, he made a steam machine out of scrap metals.
First Harriet was a slave for slaves were not aloud to go and attend a school,they were not even aloud to teach them self to read or write!
that he was a very nice friend and if it was not for him he would not be here
No education or training. She was a slave and it was illegal to teach a slave to read.
read and write
Slave children were not allowed to read or write.
yes