A Fight for Literacy: Enslaved African Americans and Education in the Antebellum South with Charles Terry

Tuesday, February 11, 2 p.m.

4603 SOUTH

Presented by the Center for Black Studies Research

Charles Terry, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Black Studies Research at UCSB, will discuss how anti-literacy laws reinforced the social hierarchy and hegemony of slave owners in the Antebellum South. His talk will focus on literacy laws enacted after the Stono Rebellion of 1739 and Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831.