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Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
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Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

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Aug 22, 2023
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In the time before the American Civil War, it was against the law in most of the slave-holding states to teach an African slave how to read. The reason is pretty obvious. The slave owners did not want trouble, and the ability to read would have been like a key to the prison door. Yet the slave-owners often had — and they ought to have had — a bad con…

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