Nineteen Fifty-Six Vol. 2 No. 5

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ASHLEE WOODS WHEN VOICES ARE MADE SILENT 56
WHEN VOICES ARE MADE SILENT It’s no secret that certain stories, voices and groups have been silenced throughout history. Books have been banned, stories have been pulled and voices have been hushed for the comfort of one group. When the U.S. was first founded, the Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights, detailing every right Americans would have while they lived in the States. One of those rights was the freedom of speech. Every American would have the right to freely express any emotion they had through songs, books, poems, and other forms of art. Just so long as those thoughts, ideas and feelings didn’t offend anyone. America is a country built on the idea of freedom in every aspect of life. But there have been times where that freedom is not experienced by every group. When Black people were removed from their homes and brought to the Americas, they also brought plenty of stories, songs, and voices with them. But by the time those people reached the Americas, those stories were gone. Black people were forced to assimilate into American culture. Of course, the voices of Black people never completely went silenced. As slavery and oppression wore on in America, the cries for freedom got louder. In August 1831, Virginia pastor Nat Turner led a bloody revolt in Southampton County, Virginia that lasted around 24 hours. The revolt killed 55 white people and led to the execution of 55 enslaved people. However, this rebellion did more than just violence. It led to sweeping reform across Virginia and the United States. Lawmakers wanted to prevent enslaved people from being able to assemble and become educated. The very freedoms the Bill of Rights promised every American were stripped away from Black people. At the time of this revolt, only 10% of enslaved people in the South were literate. But this was still too high of a rate for slave owners. Literacy gave Black people power. With power came knowledge. With knowledge came rebellions. “An educated enslaved person was a dangerous person [to slave owners],” said Clarence Lusane, a professor at Howard University. In April 1831, Virginia lawmakers passed a law that forbade any gatherings to teach freed African Americans how to read or write. In 1833, lawmakers in Alabama stated that any person that tried to teach a free or enslaved Black person would be fined no less than $250. If this law was passed in 2022, the fine would be no less than $8,367. It became increasingly clear that the fear of rebellion and abolitionism fueled these laws. White people could control illiterate Black people. They could dictate what Black people learned, what they viewed as right or 57
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