Frederick Douglass 3

If a person was to not be educated in any way for most of their life, there would be many ways to infringe upon their freedoms. They would be more gullible, more accepting and more reactionary. Anything one would do to a truly uneducated person could become justified to them. They haven’t had the opportunity to create a worldview for themselves, everything that could be done to them would seem normal. It is important to educate people, especially about how other’s live, so there wouldn’t be a way to justify wrongdoing. The masters reaped many benefits due to this. It likely reduced riots and probably assisted the slaveowners in teaching them the insulting idea that they were supposed to be slaves.