 | Carter Godwin Woodson - 1919 - 482 pages
...parts of the South was just as Berry portrayed it in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832. He said: "We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which light may enter their [the slaves'] minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work... | |
 | William Henry Brown - 1923 - 160 pages
...Henry Berry, Esq., a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, said in addressing that body: "Sirs, we have as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light might enter into their minds. We have only to go one step further—to extinguish the capacity to see the light—and... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1978 - 140 pages
...slaves was a prospect that for generations filled many whites with deep fear. Education, in their view, We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light might enter their [the slaves' ] minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be completed;... | |
 | Larry Ceplair - 1989 - 404 pages
...speech in the Legislature of that State, in 1832, expressly acknowledged, that although slaveholders had "as far as possible closed every avenue by which light might enter their minds," yet that they never had found out the process by which they "could extinguish the capacity to see the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1991 - 738 pages
..."We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which light may enter [the slaves'] minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our...be on a level with the beasts of the field and we would be safe!" Although the slaves themselves continued to strive for knowledge, these laws were rigidly... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1991 - 454 pages
...strictly enforcing anti-education edicts. One member of the Virginia House of Delegates commented, "We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which light may enter [the slaves'] minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would... | |
 | Maggie Montesinos Sale - 1997 - 284 pages
...this statement from a Virginia lawmaker, a response to Nat Turner's insurrection of 1831: "We have closed every avenue by which light might enter their...extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be complete: they would then be on a level with the beasts of the field, and we should be safe" (qtd.... | |
 | Cedric J. Robinson - 1997 - 198 pages
...anything that might fortify slave knowledge and resolve. One satisfied Virginia legislator declared: "We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light might enter their minds"(Coffing 33). He was in error. Until the Civil War and even more so during it, slave fugitives... | |
 | Janice Gow Pettey - 2002 - 313 pages
...read and write. Claud Anderson quotes an unnamed member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832, "We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light might enter their minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be completed; they would be on the... | |
 | Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - 2002 - 214 pages
...legislature in Virginia." He cleared his throat and tilted the newspaper toward the open fire for light. "'We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which light may enter slaves' minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be completed;... | |
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We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which light might enter their [the slaves'] minds. If we could •extinguish the capacity to see the light our work would be completed ; they would then be on a level with the beasts of the field, and... 
