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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
rior caste, weighed down by causes, powerful, universal, inevitable; which neither legislation nor Christianity can remove Idem, vol. VII. p. 196. 6. It opposes strenuously the education of the blacks in this country as useless as well as dangerous. Proof. If the free colored people were generally taught to read it might be an inducement to them to remain in this country (that is, in their native country). We would offer them no such inducement. Southern Religious Telegraph, February 19, 1831. The public safety of our brethren at the South requires them (the slaves) to be kept ignorant and uninstructed. G. P. Dissosway, Esq., an eminent colonizationist. It is the business of the free (their safety requires it) to keep the slaves in ignorance. But a few days ago a proposition was made in the legislature of Georgia to allow them so much instruction as to enable them to read the Bible; which was promptly rejected by a large majority. Proceedings of New York State