 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 頁
...law declared, it is a "crime to teach, or attempt to teach any slave to read or write . . . [which] has a tendency to excite dissatisfaction in their minds and to produce insurrection and rebellion." Slave accounts report punishments such as having the "forefinger cut from his right hand" for any slave... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 頁
...and women and their children flocked to Freedmen's Schools across the South. Whereas the teaching of slaves to read and write, has a tendency to excite...minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion, to the manifest injury of the citizens of this State: Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly... | |
 | Manning Marable - 2003 - 708 頁
...PERSONS FROM TEACHING SLAVES TO READ OR WRITE, THE USE OF FIGURES EXCEPTED. Whereas the teaching of slaves to read and write, has a tendency to excite...minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion, to the manifest injury of the citizens of this State: Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly... | |
 | Susan M. Ryan (Ph. D.) - 2003 - 256 頁
...by the North Carolina General Assembly in the early 1830s put the matter bluntly: "The teaching of slaves to read and write, has a tendency to excite...minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion, to the manifest injury of the citizens of this State." 15 As Janet Cornelius has pointed out, slaveholders... | |
 | Michael Lee Lanning - 2004 - 344 頁
...passed by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, which began, "Whereas the teaching of slaves to read and write, has a tendency to excite...minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion, to the manifest injury of the citizens of this State " White Southerners who might have questioned... | |
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The reason for this law, assigned in its preamble, is, that "teaching slaves to read and write, tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion. 
