The Importance of Enslaved People Reading and Writing

In places like orgia, it's one of the earliest to prohibit both at the instruction off enslave persons in reading and writing. In maryland, where frederick douglas escapes from, is not a and he does become literate. So anya enslaved person, when they travel, they need to carry with them written documentations signed by the enslaver. They can forge those, they can write their own and that is what happens in many cases. Basically what we see is slave persons empower themselves by becoming literate.