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Cool! Seems about what I'd expect for an initially illiterate, persecuted minority's culture-specific holiday.
by lukas099 1y ago
Cool! Seems about what I'd expect for an initially illiterate, persecuted minority's culture-specific holiday.
- blackqueeriroh 1y agoJust to be clear, Africans had writing, reading, mathematics, science, medicine, and more millennia before Europeans did. [1] [1] https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020113/great-achievements-in-stem-in-ancient-africa https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020113/great-achie...
- lukas099 1y agoYes, good addition—and in case it wasn’t clear, I was talking about how most slaves weren’t allowed to learn to read or write.
- downboots 1y agooddly specific