Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy -- Derek W. Black, Hardcover

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Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy -- Derek W. Black, HardcoverThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power

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