Whitelaw Reid: “Even here, the proportion of young men and women who could spell out…”

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Even here, the proportion of young men and women who could spell out simple sentences was not more than one or two in a hundred.

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Reid highlights the low literacy rates among young men and women on the plantations.

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Whitelaw Reid: “Even here, the proportion of young men and women who could spell out simple sentences was not more than one or two in a…”