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If slaves were caught learning or teaching other slaves, they were punished by being whipped.

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IN the South it was illegal to educate slaves.  Slaves were not even taught how to learn out of fear the would be able to organize a revolt against their white owners.  Many slaves still found ways to learn even with the great disadvantages.  Some slaves would carry spelling books in their hats, so when the coast was clear they could pull them out and someone could help teach them learn. Some slaves also dug out bunkers deep in the woods. They would sneak to the bunkers under the cover of darkness to teach each other how to read and write.

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1. Were African Americans fairly educated during slavery? Explain.

2. Would you have had the courage to educate blacks during slavery? Explain.

3. How would you have felt about education if you were black after the emancipation? Explain.

4. Would you have educated yourself if you were a slave? Explain.

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http://spartacus-educational.com/USASeducation.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery

http://hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-77-issue-3/herbooknote/self-taught_325

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Freed slaves had established the Savannah Educational Association, and in response  S. W. Magill, an American Missionary Association employee, “complained that black people expected him to work with them rather than hand over authority.” Placing Black teachers and administrators in Black schools was part of the freed slaves’ larger campaign for self-determination.

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Slaves often had to commute to their "schools"  from their homes.They would walk miles from their homes to the nearest school, some “barefoot, wearing torn, ragged clothing.”

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Some slaves were recruited as soldiers to fight against the Union army. "Williams tells of some Black soldiers studying their lessons during their lunch breaks and grasping at every opportunity to advance their education" (Williams, Harvard Education).

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After emancipation whites feared an intelligent group of blacks in the community, so they used violence and fear to keep them out of school.

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The notion of a literate and free African American population both threatened and inspired White southerners to seek educational opportunity for their own communities. Not only did whites seek better education for themselves they tried to keep the blacks from learning. Therefore, due to lack of education blacks couldn't compete with whites on an economic or social level.

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John Chavis from Rayleigh, North along with others ran secret night schools for slaves. Margaret Douglass was caught teaching slaves in Norfolk, Virginia and was imprisoned for illegal doings.

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During the Civil War it was illegal for blacks to have education of any form.

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Funding would often come from blacks in the community, never from the government.

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African Americans were often times educated in local churches, meant only for the African Americans.

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Could learn more freely, but schools weren't built for them.

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South Carolina was very strict against the education of blacks. "Whereas, the having slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may be attended with great inconveniences; Be it enacted, that all and every person and persons whatsoever, who shall hereafter teach or cause any slave or slaves to be taught to write, or shall use or employ any slave as a scribe, in any manner of writing whatsoever, hereafter taught to write, every such person or persons shall, for every such offense, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, current money" (spartacus-educational.com).