Former enslaved woman learning how to read

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Title: Former enslaved woman learning how to read
Description: Photograph of older Black woman being taught how to read by younger Black woman.
Bibliographic Citation: By Unknown author - http://www.aaihs.org/rethinking-early-slave-literacy/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51895148
Type: image
Language: English
Rights: Public Domain
Source: http://www.aaihs.org/rethinking-early-slave-literacy/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51895148
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--image-0377
IIIF Manifest: https://sjsu-library.github.io/unionist/img/derivatives/iiif/unionist--image-0377/manifest.json
Category: Image
Related Transcription: unionist--article-0020
Caption: This famous photograph imparts the community nature of literacy as a skill, and the craving for literacy that many free Blacks in the 1830s, and those released from slavery after the Civil War, expressed.