Adults were forced to show them how to handle the inhumane acts and degradation carried out by the whites without losing their spirits . ... On occasions, slave holders taught individual house slaves to read the Bible; however all but a few owners allowed their planters to undertake any formal education. ... "The Virginian House of Delegates declared in 1832, "We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light might enter (the slaves") minds. ...

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