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I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.”
even people who loved me could demand more of me than I could give—and expect their demands to be met simply because I owed them.
That’s history. It happened whether it offends you or not. Quite a bit of it offends me, but there’s nothing I can do about it.”
It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have. Another man said educating slaves was illegal.
