Part 18 (2/2)

Harlan, acquired the fundamentals of the co inia instructed her until she could read in the first reader[8] Abdy observed in 1834 that slaves of Kentucky had been thus taught to read

He believed that they were about as well off as they would have been, had they been free[9] Giving her experiences on a Mississippi plantation, Susan Dabney S the house servants One night she was foruests by a twelve-year-old school uests was quite astonished to see his servant recite a piece of poetry which he had learned for this occasion[10]

Confining his operations to the kitchen, another such teacher of this plantation was unusually successful in instructing the adult htenment that they becaee_, p 97]

[Footnote 2: Ibid, p 45]

[Footnote 3: Ibid, p 185]

[Footnote 4: Snowden, _Autobiography_, p 23]

[Footnote 5: Albert, _The House of Bondage_, p 125]

[Footnote 6: Birney, _The Grimke Sisters_, p 11]

[Footnote 7: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 613]

[Footnote 8: This fact is stated in one of her letters]

[Footnote 9: Abdy, _Journal of a Residence and Tour in USA_, 1833-1834 P 346]

[Footnote 10: Smedes, _A Southern Planter_, pp 79-80]

[Footnote 11: Ibid, p 80]

Planters themselves sometimes saw to the education of their slaves

Ephraiinia until he enty-one on the condition that the man to whom he was hired should teach him to read[1] Mrs Isaac Riley and Henry Williaht by their master to spell and read but not to write[2] The master and mistress of Williamson Pease, of Hardman County, Tennessee, were his teachers[3] Francis Fredric began his studies under his lass was indebted to his kind mistress for his first instruction[4] Mrs

Thoinia, was fortunate in having a master as equally benevolent[5] Honorable IT

Montgomery, now the Mayor of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, hile a slave of Jefferson Davis's brother, instructed in the common branches and trained to be the confidential accountant of histhe planters of East Georgia, CG Parsons discovered that about 5000 of the 400,000 slaves there had been taught to read and write He reenerally owned by the wealthy slaveholders, who had thehtenment of the bondmen served the purposes of their masters[7]

[Footnote 1: Drew, _A North-Side View of Slavery_, p 373]

[Footnote 2: Ibid, p 133]

[Footnote 3: Ibid, p 123]

[Footnote 4: Lee, _Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky_, p x]

[Footnote 5: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 368]

[Footnote 6: This is his own statement]