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African Americans Understood Paul‘s Words While Slave Owners Twisted Them (Lisa Bowens)
The Biblical Mind
What Did Literacy Do for the Enslaved?
O'Ksi: literacy was used to a compound the problem for the slaves. He talks about how illiteracy was used in an alternative creation story. How john jay prays to be able to learn to read, and God grants him that miracle. The magistrates see that he really can read, they are alike,. oca, this is something that only god could have done, and so you really should be free. So i think that's one of the elements that his story lifts up for us. And it also speakso the connection between spiritual freedom and physical freedom.
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