[free-sklyarov] NC Call to Protest

[Sonia Arana]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Rob McGee wrote:
> > Dmitry Skylarov is the first man ever to be jailed for telling people how to
> > decode and read a book.
> > --------------------------------------------
> 
> Also, I doubt that's really true. A lot of people have been jailed and
> even murdered by gov'ts for a lot of crazy reasons. Yes, even the great
> USA does stuff like that all the time, past and present.

indeed, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. i suspect the penalties
for being a (known) literate slave were higher than teaching one (death
vs. imprisonment).