Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy By Derek W. Black Material:Hard Cover But he didn’t make it

But he didn’t make it easy

The grave birds begin to show Hollis the dead’s ugly deeds from some twenty-five years ago and the horrible things some people did to gain their wealth

Then Gabriel Dalton walks into her life

They’re opposites

He told them I forced her

Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy By Derek W. Black Material:Hard Cover But he didn’t make itThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power