Good morning!! Its SATURDAY - which means a gift of a free used book to everyone in the store today! Have a beautiful first Saturday of the year!!! I hope you can run over! Below is a one of my favorite quotes written by Frederick Douglass, a freed slave, in the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. 1881 on the importance of learning through the ability to read: The frequent hearing of my mistress reading the Bible aloud, for she often read aloud when her husband was absent, awakened my curiosity in respect to this mystery of reading, and roused in me the desire to learn. Up to this time I had known nothing of this wonderful art, and my ignorance and inexperience of what it could do for me, as well as my confidence in my mistress, emboldened me to ask her to teach me to read. With an unconsciousness and inexperience equal to my own, she readily consented, and in an incredibly short time, by her kind assistance, I had mastered the alphabet and could spell words of three or four letters...Master Hugh was astounded beyond measure and, probably for the first time, proceeded to unfold to his wife the true philosophy of the slave system, and the peculiar rules necessary in the nature of the case to be observed in the management of human chattels. Of course he forbade her to give me any further instruction, telling her in the first place that to do so was unlawful, as it was also unsafe; for, said he, if you give an... an inch he will take an ell. Learning will spoil the best n... in the world...
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:54:50 +0000
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