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Originally posted by toodamnfli
so why in the hell would some plantation owner teach someone a new language when they were ripped from their homeland,stripped of their family,beaten to a pulp daily, and worked from sunup to sundown for the prividledge of living to be a slave?
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Well... a sick or injured slave would be worthless. As would a slave that couldn't speak English.
I don't buy the read and write part though...