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“His Intelligence from the Enemy’s Camp were Industriously Collected…” (James Armistead Lafayette, Mini Episode)
During the Revolutionary War, enslaved American James Armistead acted as a double agent and provided valuable information to French general Marquis...
“The more I read, the more I fought against slavery.” (Slave Narratives and the Pursuit of Literacy, Part 3)
For enslaved Americans, literacy was a path to freedom. Those who could write forged the “tickets” that both enslaved and free blacks needed to...
“It was only by trickery that I learned to read.” (Slave Narratives and the Pursuit of Literacy, Part 2)
Throughout the South, it was illegal for white people to teach black people--enslaved and sometimes free--how to read. Some whites taught blacks anyway:...
“I would take my child and hide in the mountains.” (Slave Narratives and the Pursuit of Literacy, Part 1)
Anti-literacy laws prevented millions of enslaved Americans from learning to read and write, and from chronicling their lives on paper. Thanks to oral...
“We are afraid to speak for our rights.” (Freedom Summer ’64, Part 2)
In 1964, most Americans were unaware that black people were literally dying for trying to vote in Mississippi. Bob Moses and other "SNCCs" hoped that...
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