On the recordJanuary 1, 1881
The whole community, with but one single exception, among the whites, frowned upon everything like imparting instruction, either to slaves or to free colored persons.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass describes the widespread societal opposition to educating Black people in the South.
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