-> On 25 May 08  16:09:20, John Massey got back to Bob Klahn 
-> Re: In case you missed the co

 JM>> Bovine excrement, You have shown nothing that shows poor
 JM>> whites in the south were more literate than slaves.
 
 BK>  He did say a reasonable conclusion, not firm proof. Like I said,
 BK>  the stats I found were not broken down in detail either.

 JM> With out stats on share croppers and other dirt poor southerners in
 JM> the 1860/70's, I don't think a fair conclusion can be made. I sure
 JM> don't think it come close to proving the claim made. 

I've already given you a number of studies on it, John.  

The fact of the matter is that there were far more illiterate slaves 
then there were illiterate southern whites.  


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