It is interesting to note that Robert Russa Moton was taught to read by the
daughter of his former master, Samuel Vaughan, of Prince Edward County. In
fact, I believe he mentions that fact in his autobiography.
Happy Thanksgiving.
L.H. Burruss

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Legal restrictions or prohibitions against teaching slaves to read are
> pretty widely mentioned for the antebellum period -- and yet the reports to
> the Bishop of London or the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,
> etc., from 18th-century clergymen show that Virginia's Anglican ministers
> were regularly teaching the Bible and Catechism (as well as administering
> communion) to enslaved Virginians -- and presumably many evangelical
> encouraged biblical literacy as well.
>
>     I'm curious about precisely when and how laws and practice changed; I
> would be grateful either for references to the statutes by which teaching
> slaves to read came to be illegal, or perhaps reliable scholarship about
> this.  And curious, too, about whether the timing and nature of this change
> in Virginia law and practice was similar or different from adjacent
> Southern colonies/states.
>
>    Thank you - and Happy Thanksgiving to all (regardless of where the
> holiday originated).
>
> Jon Kukla
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