Earlier today, September 26, 2017, I wrote on Facebook the following:
https://wordsmith.org/words/illiterati.html
"ILLITERACY IS NOT INCOMPETENCY, BUT IS AN INADEQUACY IN ONE RESPECT. MANY AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES WERE ILLITERATE, BUT THEY MANAGED TO FIND FREEDOM FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR US; AND TO CREATE OUR CULTURE."
Proof of my premise is found in the life of Harriet Tubman. In the book, WORTH FIGHTING FOR by Agnes McCarthy and Lawrence Reddick (1965) they have written :
"One of the greatest conductors was Harriet Tubman. She had to do a lot of talking before the leaders of the Railroad would let her become a conductor. Not only was she a woman, but she was a sickly one at that. She had been struck on the head when she was a little girl, and suffered terrible dizzy spells ever after. In addition , she did not know how to read and write. So how could she write and read codes and maps? How could such a person bring others safely out of the South?
"But Harriet knew what slavery was. She had made up her mind that she was going to bring as many Negroes as she could out of that miserable life. She finally convinced the leaders of the Railroad to give her a chance.
"Harriet was the best of conductors, as it turned out. Slave-owners certainly thought so. They offered a $40,000 reward for her, dead or alive. Between 1850 and 1860, she went into the South nineteen times, and brought three hundred passengers out . Among them were her sister, her parents, and her two children....
"Harriet proved that a blow for freedom can be struck without education. And, while she was working in her way, Negroes with education were working in theirs."
P.24-25, "The Underground Railroad "
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
ILLITERACY? NO PROBLEM!
Earlier today, September 26, 2017, I wrote on Facebook the following:
https://wordsmith.org/words/illiterati.html
"ILLITERACY IS NOT INCOMPETENCY, BUT IS AN INADEQUACY IN ONE RESPECT. MANY AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVES WERE ILLITERATE, BUT THEY MANAGED TO FIND FREEDOM FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR US; AND TO CREATE OUR CULTURE."
Proof of my premise is found in the life of Harriet Tubman. In the book, WORTH FIGHTING FOR by Agnes McCarthy and Lawrence Reddick (1965) they have written :
"One of the greatest conductors was Harriet Tubman. She had to do a lot of talking before the leaders of the Railroad would let her become a conductor. Not only was she a woman, but she was a sickly one at that. She had been struck on the head when she was a little girl, and suffered terrible dizzy spells ever after. In addition , she did not know how to read and write. So how could she write and read codes and maps? How could such a person bring others safely out of the South?
"But Harriet knew what slavery was. She had made up her mind that she was going to bring as many Negroes as she could out of that miserable life. She finally convinced the leaders of the Railroad to give her a chance.
"Harriet was the best of conductors, as it turned out. Slave-owners certainly thought so. They offered a $40,000 reward for her, dead or alive. Between 1850 and 1860, she went into the South nineteen times, and brought three hundred passengers out . Among them were her sister, her parents, and her two children....
"Harriet proved that a blow for freedom can be struck without education. And, while she was working in her way, Negroes with education were working in theirs."
P.24-25, "The Underground Railroad "