From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power, part
of a paragraph about how the enslaved people reacted to their bondage:
‘African Americans understood they were at war, and reacted
accordingly: running away, rebelling violently, fleeing to the British,
murdering slave-catchers, and—less spectacularly, though more
significantly—refusing to work, breaking tools, bending a Christian God to
their own interpretation, stealing back the fruits of their labor, and, in
covert corners of their world, committing themselves to the illegal act of
learning to read.’
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