I love this book post. Thank you, and I will be posting more often. My next book is Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver. But check this interesting few moments and words in the narritive.

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Very soon after I went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Auld, she very kindly commenced to teach me the A, B, C. After I had learned this, she assisted me in learning to spell words of three or four letters. Just at this point of my progress, Mr. Auld found out what was going on, and at once forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use his own words, further, he said, "If you give nigger an inch, he will take an ell. A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master--to do as he is told to do.**Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. Now," he said, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave."

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**One of my favorite passages in this book. It was actually the turning point for me because it struck me as still a relevant statement. Who would have known. "What an evil plot by the man." Ha, Ha, Ha. Laugh, its kinda funny but don't laugh too hard.

Peace,
N.