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Juneteenth Reminds Us of Black Americans’ Long Struggle for Education Following End of Slavery - Bucks County Beacon

Formerly enslaved people built schools and HBCUs as anti-literacy laws kept Black literacy low, with about 90% of Southern Black people illiterate in 1865.

Written by Rodney Coates, Miami University The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himself was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. Douglass described in his 1845 autobiography how one of his enslavers, Mrs. Auld, began teaching him to read when he was a child. Mrs. Auld’s husband ordered her to stop giving Doug…

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westvirginiawatch.com broke the news on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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