Nightjohn's Influence On Reading And Writing

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Nightjohn was a man who knew he would get into trouble for teaching other slaves how to read and write. When I think of nightjohn I think of all of my teachers and how they teach me the most amazing things. Wow they taught me how to read, write, and do math equations. He got caught teaching the little girl the letters. His punishment for that was that he had gotten his finger chopped off they were going to beat him they caught it off instead.

Walker was the owner of the slaves, he would only beat slaves if they had done something wrong. In my opinion, if he rewards the ones that don’t do anything bad don’t you think they won’t do anything bad again because they want a reward even if it’s extra food or something small. In my experience

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