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To: Ohioan; All
‘Another note, are you aware that Stonewall Jackson taught a Sunday School class for Negro children in Virginia, before the War?’

Yes and in so doing T J Jackson was violating Virginia statute law which forbade teaching slaves to read and write. (These laws which emerged from the Nat Turner uprising seem to have been largely ignored by quite a few upper class and even just regular southerners. I think Booker T Washington learned the rudiments of reading and writing before 1865.

In any case Jackson in the uniform of a CSA general graces one of the stained glass windows of a black church in Roanoke, I believe,. It was founded by one of the black children who learned to read at Jackson’s Sunday School class.

89 posted on 06/20/2015 2:41:35 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat

Thank You, May there be scaring ‘to truth’ ... Moving ‘down in the river’ to pray.


91 posted on 06/20/2015 2:45:31 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (If America Cared would a moslem cair?)
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