Whitelaw Reid: “Men of middle age, often of considerable intelligence, professed their…”

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Men of middle age, often of considerable intelligence, professed their utter inability to learn the alphabet.

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Reid describes the challenges faced by middle-aged men on plantations in learning to read and write.

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Whitelaw Reid: “Men of middle age, often of considerable intelligence, professed their utter inability to learn the alphabet.”