1832 in the wake of nat turner s revolt. until then, there s an actual fair amount of teaching slaves to read and write, particularly artisans and house slaves. the other thing is, this is also a period in which the vast majority of enslaved people in the chesapeake have become christians, and they re usually methodist or baptist and their class leaders or teachers would like many of them to be able to read the bible. so there s much more literacy than we have bargained on, and you don t need everybody to be able to read it. if there s one group of 50 who can read, he can read it to everybody else. the other thing is that people in america are lousy at keeping secrets. they are the world s worst people at keeping secrets and this comes back to bite them all time in the war of 1812. you get officers in the front line writing letters about how terrible their troops are and they re not prepared and they re sick and they get published in the newspapers of that time. people talk a
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