WITH EACH NEW SHIPMENT OF SLAVES, THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE CAUTION. WHY? BECAUSE THE NEW SLAVES WOULD BE LESS LIKELY TO ACCEPT SERVITUDE. THEREFORE, A CONSTANT DUMBING DOWN WOULD HAVE TO BE IN PLACE. OR ELSE, YOU COULD END UP WITH WHAT THEY HAD IN HAITI, WHERE THEY REALIZED IT WAS THE NEW SLAVES THAT WERE THE MOST THREAT FOR REVOLT AFTER SEVERAL REVOLTS ENSUED WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF NEWLY CAPTURED SLAVES. The most oppressive limits on slave education were a reaction to Nat Tu rner's Revolt in Southampton County, Virginia during the summer of 1831. This event not only caused shock waves across the slave holding South, but it had a particularly far-reaching impact on education over the next three decades. The fears of slave insurrections and the spread of abolitionist materials and ideology led to radical restrictions on gatherings, travel, and—of course—literacy. The ignorance of the slaves was considered necessary to the security of the slaveholders (Albanese 1976). Not only...