[Robwin]

Virginia law forbade teaching a slave, free black or mulatto to read or write

So? Today's teacher's unions, such as the NEA, follow the same policy and they don't need some steekin' law to make them do so.

[Pelham]

Virginia law forbade teaching a slave, free black or mulatto to read or write

Thomas J Jackson did it anyway in his Sunday School class at the Lexington Presbyterian Church. From 1855 until the war interrupted it.