Slave Owner Value Literacy In Slavery

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in the film Slave owner value literacy because they think that it has too much power for the black people. They can use the literacy to write passes for slaves to leave and get past slave owners worker and they can teach other slaves how to read. They can threaten their authority and they can know their net worth by how much they are worth and how much the other people worth that are in slavery. An we could blackmail people if we know how to read and write messages to the people up north to come set the slaves free that why the slaves back then valued the life of literacy that why literacy is important to them. They fought for the right to read and write so they can read and write and their kids after

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