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Quotes from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 — Carter G. Woodson

1875–1950 United States

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Believing that slaves could not be enlightened without developing in them a longing for liberty, not a few masters maintained that the more brutish the bondmen the more pliant they become for purposes of exploitation. It was this class of slaveholders that finally won the majority of southerners to their way of thinking and determined that Negroes should not be educated.

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 (1915)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carter G. Woodson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.