Colin Dellow @cldellow.com · Mar 29

I learned from a statue on the Texas Capitol grounds that many slaves found jobs after emancipation due to the skills taught them by their owners. How kind of the owners, looking out for slaves' future employability. The secession declaration would have been more educational, imo:

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PhoenixWomanMN · Mar 29

One of the skills forbidden them was literacy. Teaching slaves to read was an offense punishable by death in the South.