Really, aren't you the one who posted something about Jim Crowe laws in Georgia and laws from 1806?
That's different. :)
I asked, and I'll ask again, which do you think is worse, segregation or being forbidden to read? In that sense, I will ask you to apply modern day values.
People of the day in 1806 were obviously not seriously up in arms over it being forbidden for blacks to be taught to read.
By 1860, there was a small body of opinion who DID take exception to slavery and the slave holders took the bitterest exception to THAT.
Walt
No, it's not. :)
Obviously slavery is a terrible thing. However, don't act as though the evil southerners were holding the poor slaves down while the saints in the rest of the country wanted them free. The north and south were simply arguing over economics for the most part...