Posted on 02/07/2018 6:38:50 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Frederick Douglass was born Frederick “Baily” on a Maryland plantation around Feb. 7, 1817, though no accurate records exist, as he was a slave. He later chose the birth date of February 14 as he remembered his mother calling him her “little valentine.” He never saw his mother in the daylight, as he was separated from her as an infant. He did not know who his father was.
Around 12 years old, his master’s sister-in-law, Sophia Auld, was teaching Frederick the alphabet, despite this being against the law. When her husband found out and immediately forbade it, saying that if slaves could read, they would grow discontent and desire freedom.
Frederick considered this the “first decidedly anti-slavery lecture” he had ever heard, causing him to be determined to read all the more.
Frederick wrote in his autobiography of learning to read from neighborhood white children. He would carefully observe the writings of men he worked with. He remembered reading a newspaper only to have it snatched away from him with a scolding. Frederick voraciously read newspapers, books, and a publication titled the Columbian Orator. He is noted as saying “knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom.”
Frederick was hired out to the William Freeland plantation where he taught other slaves to read the New Testament at a weekly Sunday school. Slaves would use dirt as a chalk board. Enthusiasm in learning to read drew more than 40 slaves to attend. Neighboring Democrat plantation owners were incensed that their slaves were learning to read, as this made it harder to control them.
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I’ll tell Ya when I are one.
Yes. The got the reading, now they need to learn discernment.
“They’ll put y’all back in chains again.” —Slow Joe Biden speaking of the Republicans.
If the bad guys had really wanted to prevent slaves from learning to read, they should have sent them to public schools.
Blacks started out supporting the party of Lincoln, the Republicans, but were returned to the plantation by Democrat promises of government largess and charges of racism against Republicans.
What happens when people who claim to still be slaves decide learning to read is “white” and don’t value education?
Now we have an entire generation clawing their way back to illiteracy.
Tell that to the hoodrats and babymamas.
Perhaps we can teach NFL players to read
Unlike today, bet he and many others learned to read cursive.
Now we can read but all we get is Fake News telling us that slavery is freedom.
RoosterRedux wrote:
It’s time once again to set the slaves of the Democrat plantation free.
You make a good point. ‘Education’ provided by the State leads to semi-literate ghetto youth. Instead of reading, they now rely on television to tell them what to think. Sad.
In that era a totally different method of teaching reading was used in public schools.
It was simple and it worked.
Phonics. And there were two sets of rules one must know to make it work that have been forgotten since the 1800s.
Tell that to the colleges whose football teams that many on here worship about that deficiency. Go to the high schools too.
Silent letters are those which do not represent any element; and they must not be sounded in the pronounciation of the words in which they occur.
| 1. E final is usually silent; as in brave, crime, drone, abide, become, improve; able, marble, Bible. | 2. E is often silent before d; as in bribed, changed, hedged; cradled, handled, struggled. | 3. E is often silent before l; as in drivel, grovel, hazel, shovel, swivel, weasel. |
| 4. E is often silent before n; as in garden, hidden, kitten, lighten, spoken, taken. | 5. I is sometimes silent before l; as in evil, weevil. | 6. I is sometimes silent before n, as in basin, cousin, reisin. |
| 7. O is sometimes silent before n, as in bacon, deacon, mason, pardon, reason, weapon. | 8. B is silent after m and before t; as in comb, climb, dumb, jamb, lamb, tomb; debt, doubt; subtle. | 9. C is silent in czar, and muscle, and before k and t and s; as in back, crack, lock; indict, victuals, scene, scythe, scepter. |
| 10. D id silent in Wednesday, standtholder, and before g in the same syllable; as in badge, fadge, dodge. | 11. G is silent before m and n, and sometimes before l; as in phlegm, diaphragm; gnat, feign, consign; intaglio, seraglio. | 12. H is silent in heir, herb, honest; and after g or r; at the end of a word and preceded by a vocal; and sometimes after t; as in ghastly, gherkin, ghostly; rheum, rhyme, myrrh; ah, oh, halleluiah; isthmus. |
| 13. K is always silent before n; as in knave, knee, knife, knob, known, knew. |
They do!
They can become great.
Show me where they want to be set free. What happens to libraries in inner cities?
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| Rule 2.-- When substitutes are used, they must have the same sounds as the elements for which they stand. | A Substitute is a single letter, or two or more letters, used to represent an elementary sound which is peculiar to some other letter. |
| We believe and maintain, that in all cases where two or more letters are used as a substitute, thet collectively represent an elementary sound which is not peculiar to any one of them, when taken by itself, but to some other letter. Thus we regard ai in said as a substitute for short e, because they represent the element of short e, which is not peculiar to either of the letters. | If the element in question is peculiar to any one of the letters used to represent it, we regard that letter alone as the representative of the element, and the others as silent. Thus eo in people is not a substitute for long e, because the element heard in the pronounciation is peculiar to the letter e alone, and the o is silent. |
| What is a substitute? | What demented person invented substitutes to drive us crazy? |
| It appears the table of substitutes for many spelling combinations doesn't so much give rules as it just informs the student of the possible combinations. Once they are aware there may be a different spelling for a word such as, ph = f as in phrase, the student should at least realize there may be a different spelling other than "f", and then look up the word in the dictionary to see which is correct. Eventually they will begin to remember the correct spellings. |
Click here for a printable version of the Table of Substitutes.
ei = a as in vein ey = a as in they e = a as in sergeant ou = a as in bought |
i = e as in marine a = e as in any ai = e as in said u = e as in bury |
y = i as in spy y = i as in hymn e = i as in english ee = i as in been |
o = i as in women u = i as in busy ew = o as in sew eau = o as in beau |
au = o as in hautboy a = o as in what ew = u as in new iew = u as in view |
io = u as in nation eo = u as in surgeon y = u as in Myrtle e = u as in her |
i = u as in sir o = u as in son oo = u as in blood o = u as in wolf |
oo = u as in wool ow = ou as in now u = w as in persuasion o = wu as in one |
i = y as in onion u = yu as inuse ph = f as in phrase gh = f as in laugh |
d = j as in soldier g = j as in gem c = k as in cat ch = k as in chord |
gh = k as in hough q = k as in quart c = s as in cent f = v as in of |
ph = v as in Stephen c = z as in suffice s = z as in his x = x as in xanthus |
x = ks as in wax cho = kw as in choir n = ng as in anger c = sh as in ocean |
s = sh as in sure ch = sh as in chaise t = sh as in notion g = zh as in rouge |
s = zh as in osier x = gz as in exact |
Click here for a printable version of the Table of Substitute Combinations.
| 1. Vein, feint, deign; they, prey, survey, obey; oft, for, nor, cord; cough, trough, bought, ought; marine, police, fatugue; any, many; said, again. | 2. Bury, buried, burial; spy, fly, type, tyrant; hymn, hysteric, hypocrite; English, Englishman, England; been; women; busy, busily, business; sew, shew, shewn. | 3. Beau, bateau; hautboy, hauteur, hautgout; what, wad, squad, squander; mew, pew, dew; view, purview, interview; nation, passion, religion. |
| 4. Luncheon, pigeon, surgeon; myrtle, myrmidon, myrrh; her, herd, perch; sir, stir, fir, bird; son, won, love; blood, flood; wolf, wolfish, wolverine. | 5. Wool, wood, stood, how, owl, bower; suasion, suavity, suaviter; one, once; onion, valiant, collier; union, figure, stature; phrase, cipher, graphic. | 6. Laugh, tough, enough; soldier, soldier-like; gem, ginger, gypsum; cat, scope, arc; chord, scholar, monarch; hough, lough, shough; quart, quibble. |
| 7. Cent, dice, facile; of; Stephen; suffice, sacrifice, sice, discern; his, prism, usurper; Xanthus, xiphoid, xanthid; wax, axis, expanse. | 8. Choir, choir-service; anger, languidly; ocean, social, specious; sure, sugar, pension; chaise, chamois, machine; notion, partial, patient; bastion, question, christian; osier, crosier, usual; exact, example, exist. | 9. Ed is often used as a substitute for t; as in placed, mixed, vexed, looked, stopped, rebuked. |
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