For The White Man, Of The White Man, And By The White Man

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the pursuit of Happiness"(Primus 295).
Thomas Jefferson, having slaves himself, recognized the fact that he could
not free the slaves himself in that document. It was difficult enough
for him to get the Declaration approved by all of the colonies in itself.
In fact the last man to sign the Declaration of Independence did not do so
until the year 1778. The slaves were kept in ignorance of any knowledge
which might have led to their freedom. Laws forbade reading and writing
for slaves. They also forbade anyone to teach a slave to read. To keep
the slaves obedient, slaveholders often made an example of a slave by
beating him with the cow skin, or even killing him. "He[Gore] gave Denby
but few stripes; the latter broke away from him and plunged into the creek,
and, standing there to the depth of his neck in water, he refused to come
out at the order of the overseer; whereupon, for this refusal, Gore shot
him dead!"(My Bondage and My Freedom 122). This era was definitely a
period ...

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