When the first slaves came to North American during early sixteen century, slave education was quickly forbidden. It was severed punishment if slaves attempted to learn how to read and write. Even white people who supported the idea of slave educations were opposed by the slaveholders. The only exposure of education that slaves had was learning some verbal bible verses that slave master read them in order to convert them to Christianity. They did not even know how to read though they were reciting those verses. The Northern part of the country was slightly flexible when it came to instructing slaves, but the education of slaves in the Southern part was very slow until the Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. According to Deeptha
