Faith to Freedom Daily: C.H. Hall
Posted on July 27th, 2010 by Chris McMahon
C. H. Hall was interviewed in 1863 in Canada at at fifty-two. He was enslaved in Maryland where he was born. He states that it was a rule in that country, that a slave must not be seen with a book of any kind; but old madam Bean, my mistress, belonged to the Baptist Church, and she said we might all learn to spell and read the Bible. The old man fought against it for some time, but found it prevailed nothing. After she got to work pretty well, she used to teach me with the children. I learned how to spell considerable, and afterwards I got so I could read a little.
