Project Gutenberg 2023-03-21 Public domain in the USA. 87 Douglass, Margaret Crittenden 1822 Douglass, Margaret Crittendon Educational laws of Virginia : $b The personal narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a southern woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the common jail of Norfolk, under the laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free colored children to read $aUnited States :$bJohn P. Jewett & Co., $c1854. The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Educational Laws of Virginia: The Personal Narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass" is a historical account written in the mid-19th century. The narrative centers on Margaret Douglass, a Southern woman who faced imprisonment for teaching free colored children to read, highlighting the tensions surrounding education and race in antebellum Virginia. Douglass vehemently contends against the laws that prohibited such instruction, positioning her story within the broader context of Southern societal norms and legal constraints. The opening of the narrative introduces Mrs. Douglass's background and the critical incident leading to her arrest, detailing her well-intentioned efforts to teach free black children in Norfolk. She illustrates her motivations, emphasizing her humanitarian outlook rather than any political agenda or affiliation with abolitionist movements. Douglass describes how her decision to educate these children led to her becoming a target for the authorities, culminating in a raid on her school and her subsequent trial. Throughout this initial segment, she establishes her identity and lays the groundwork for a robust critique of the laws that uphold educational restrictions, framing her ensuing legal battles as a fight for moral justice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20230122170614douglass 1854 US Reading ease score: 60.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en African Americans -- Education -- Virginia Douglass, Margaret Crittenden, 1822- LC Text Category: Biographies Category: History - American Category: Law & Criminology Category: Teaching & Education 146470 2025-06-28T03:56:16.931851 text/html 146323 2023-03-21T00:01:41 text/html 436395 2025-06-28T03:56:20.677882 application/epub+zip 436713 2025-06-28T03:56:18.278861 application/epub+zip 224864 2025-06-28T03:56:17.417884 application/epub+zip 989402 2025-06-28T03:56:22.524825 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 975539 2025-06-28T03:56:20.170919 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 132914 2025-06-28T03:56:16.743903 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 132700 2023-03-21T00:01:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18538 2025-06-28T03:56:22.653837 application/rdf+xml 23616 2025-06-28T03:56:17.695883 image/jpeg 3188 2025-06-28T03:56:17.553880 image/jpeg 48672 2023-03-21T00:01:42 application/octet-stream application/zip 954127 2023-03-21T00:01:42 application/octet-stream application/zip 965103 2025-06-28T03:56:16.955925 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia