 | 1835 - 550 pages
...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." ' In Georgia, if a white teach a free negro or slave to read or write, he is fined 500 dollars, and... | |
 | William Jay - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 230 pages
...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." or write, he is fined 500 dollars, and imprisoned at the discretion of the court; if the offender be... | |
 | William Jay - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 218 pages
...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." In Georgia, if a white teach a free negro or slave to read or write, he is fined $500, and imprisoned... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1835 - 644 pages
...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." ' In Georgia, if a white teach a free negro or slave to read or write, he is fined 500 dollars, and... | |
 | Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 814 pages
...if a white. The reason set forth in the preamble is, that " teaching slaves to read and write, tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion ! ! " 3 c 3 to laVw, bat apparently with little or no sneers*. At * birr period fresh attempts were... | |
 | William Jay - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 216 pages
...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." In Georgia, if a white teach a free negro or slave' to read or write, he is fined $500, and imprisoned... | |
 | Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 674 pages
...if a white. The reason set forth in the preamble is, that " teaching slaves to read and write, tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion ! !" 2r3 to labour, but apparently with little or LO sue. cess. At a later period fresh attempts were... | |
 | 1841 - 832 pages
...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." In Georgia, if a white teach a free negro or slave te read or write, he is fined 500 dollars, and imprisoned... | |
 | British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 308 pages
...assigned in the preamble to the North Carolina law, ie that " teaching slaves to read or write tends to 'excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion," is doubtless the ground of all these prohibitory enactments. The law of South Carolina in 1740 says,... | |
 | Hugh Murray - United States - 1844 - 394 pages
...preamble to a law of North Carolina, it is laid down, that " teaching slaves to read and write tends to excite dissatisfaction in their minds, and to produce insurrection and rebellion." On this ground, the giving of such instruction, if by a negro, is punished by thirtynine kshes; if... | |
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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. 
