Frederick Douglass discovered, while still enslaved, why learning to read represented a threat to the system that oppressed him: "Knowledge makes a child unfit to be a slave."

Original: Frederick Douglass descobriu, ainda escravizado, por que aprender a ler representava uma ameaça ao sistema que o oprimia: “O conhecimento torna uma criança incapaz de ser escrava”.

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