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During the era of chattel slavery in the United States, the proper education of enslaved African Americans (with exception made for religious instruction) was highly discouraged, and eventually made illegal in most of the Southern states.[1]
After 1831, the prohibition against educating enslaved persons was extended in some states to free blacks as well. Regardless of the legality of educating people of color, people in this demographic ultimately received limited access to education in both the north and south.[2]
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- ^ Flanigan, Daniel J. (November 1974). "Criminal Procedure in Slave Trials in the Antebellum South". The Journal of Southern History. 40 (4): 537–564. doi:10.2307/2206354. ISSN 0022-4642. JSTOR 2206354.
- ^ D., T. W.; Hurd, John Codman (July 1862). "The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States". The American Law Register. 10 (9): 573. doi:10.2307/3302854. ISSN 1558-3813. JSTOR 3302854.