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The Cruelty Of Slavery And Education

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Slavery was very unfair for the people from the American South, some slaves didn’t have education and some of their families were split apart. Slaves did not have education some examples are in Frederick Douglas it talks about how he goes to Aud a slaver and how his wife was teaching him alphabet even though it was against the law,when Aud found out he put a stop to the teaching even though he still learned from white kids around when he was there with Aud. Another piece of evidence is slaves could not read and write,they had to work really hard for their owners,they had no school,and it was against the law for the owner to teach slavers Frederick Douglas had

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