In February 1847, the Missouri General Assembly passed a law
in which the teaching of any Negro, free or slave, was forbidden.
Despite this law, many African-Americans, free and slave,
took part in a self-initiated system of education
which laid a solid foundation for eventual freedom from bondage.
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