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Domestic News
November 6, 1846
Anti Slavery Bugle
New Lisbon, Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio
What is this article about?
The Boston Whig reprints a New Orleans Delta letter from August 23 warning against teaching slaves to read or write, citing a Louisiana law imposing 1-12 months imprisonment, and calls to deter such misguided philanthropic efforts.
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From the Boston Whig.
Southern Institutions.
No one will accuse us of libelling Southern institutions, when we say we cut the following from the New Orleans Delta, of the 23d of August last. The italics are just as they are in that paper—
Mr. Editor: I have heard that some well meaning, perhaps, but erring persons, are in the habit of instructing slaves to read and write! particularly some of those constituting the so-called philanthropic societies, such as Sunday Schools, &c. To say nothing of the policy of such proceedings, and the mischief it is calculated to produce among our slave population, it is forbidden by law? by a law to be found in Greiner's Louisiana Digest, page 521, article 3499, which reads as follows: "All persons who shall teach, or permit, or cause to be taught, any slave in this State to read or write, shall on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, be imprisoned not less than one month nor more than twelve months."
Your publishing this, Mr. Editor, may possibly have the effect of deterring those misguided people from persistence in a pursuit more injurious to our safety than all the railings of Northern fanatics.
Southern Institutions.
No one will accuse us of libelling Southern institutions, when we say we cut the following from the New Orleans Delta, of the 23d of August last. The italics are just as they are in that paper—
Mr. Editor: I have heard that some well meaning, perhaps, but erring persons, are in the habit of instructing slaves to read and write! particularly some of those constituting the so-called philanthropic societies, such as Sunday Schools, &c. To say nothing of the policy of such proceedings, and the mischief it is calculated to produce among our slave population, it is forbidden by law? by a law to be found in Greiner's Louisiana Digest, page 521, article 3499, which reads as follows: "All persons who shall teach, or permit, or cause to be taught, any slave in this State to read or write, shall on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, be imprisoned not less than one month nor more than twelve months."
Your publishing this, Mr. Editor, may possibly have the effect of deterring those misguided people from persistence in a pursuit more injurious to our safety than all the railings of Northern fanatics.
What sub-type of article is it?
Slave Related
Legal Or Court
What keywords are associated?
Slave Education
Louisiana Law
Teaching Slaves
Imprisonment Penalty
Where did it happen?
Louisiana
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Louisiana
Event Date
23d Of August Last
Outcome
imprisoned not less than one month nor more than twelve months
Event Details
A letter to the editor of the New Orleans Delta warns that teaching slaves to read and write is forbidden by Louisiana law (Greiner's Louisiana Digest, page 521, article 3499), punishable by imprisonment, and urges deterring such activities by philanthropic societies like Sunday Schools.