[ItisaReligionofPeace]

It's silly to judge historical people by modern day standards.

Really, aren't you the one who posted something about Jim Crowe laws in Georgia and laws from 1806?

[WhiskeyPapa]

It's silly to judge historical people by modern day standards.

Really, aren't you the one who posted something about Jim Crowe laws in Georgia and laws from 1806?

That's different. :)

I asked, and I'll ask again, which do you think is worse, segregation or being forbidden to read? In that sense, I will ask you to apply modern day values.

People of the day in 1806 were obviously not seriously up in arms over it being forbidden for blacks to be taught to read.

By 1860, there was a small body of opinion who DID take exception to slavery and the slave holders took the bitterest exception to THAT.

Walt