No Longer A Slave

 

Reading the entire Biblical Text is by far, the purest form of RESISTANCE in our current culture and climate! 

Drawing closer to the Lord during this great divide is a HIGH CALLING for any one person or community.

As long as I live and breath, I’am never gonna let you forget Southern Slave States enacted anti-literacy laws between 1740 and beyond, prohibiting anyone from teaching enslaved (Black People) to read or write!

At one point in time, the Bible was the principal teaching tool. The King James Bible was published in 1611 and in 1629 the first Bible was printed in the UK at Cambridge University Press.

The Slave Bible was published by Law and Gilbert publishing house in London in 1807, and currently Fisk University houses one of three remaining copies published in 1808. Please note The Slave Bible (Select Parts of the Holy Bible: For the Use of the Negro Slaves) was published on behalf of British Clergy to preserve the system of forced labor. The Slave Bible excluded any portions of the bible that might inspire Freedom.

Consequently, as long as I live and breath, I am also never gonna let you forget that many, many white people risk life and limb (Sophia Auld) to teach Frederick Douglass and many other Black people to read and write.