{"cachedAt":722911284.419393,"content":{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"captionedImage","content":[{"attrs":{"topImage":false,"type":"image\/jpeg","href":null,"width":700,"srcNoWatermark":null,"bytes":51930,"resizeWidth":null,"belowTheFold":false,"height":458,"alt":null,"src":"https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/aa09e0c7-4fc4-45d9-9a00-eea8d594b1f7_700x458.jpeg","title":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"internalRedirect":null},"type":"image2"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Very soon the Yankee teachers"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"   Came down and set up school;","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"But, oh! how the Rebs did hate it,—","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   It was agin’ their rule."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Our masters always tried to hide","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   Book learning from our eyes;"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"Knowledge did’nt agree with slavery—","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   ’Twould make us all too wise."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"But some of us would try to steal"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"   A little from the book.","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"And put the words together,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   And learn by hook or crook."}]},{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"I remember Uncle Caldwell,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   Who took pot liquor fat"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"And greased the pages of his book,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   And hid it in his hat."}],"type":"paragraph"},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"And had his master ever seen"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"   The leaves upon his head,","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"He’d have thought them greasy papers,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   But nothing to be read."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"And there was Mr. Turner’s Ben,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   Who heard the children spell,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"And picked the words right up by heart,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"   And learned to read ’em well.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Well, the Northern folks kept sending","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   The Yankee teachers down;"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"And they stood right up and helped us,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"   Though Rebs did sneer and frown.","type":"text"}]},{"content":[{"text":"And I longed to read my Bible,","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   For precious words it said;"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"But when I begun to learn it,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   Folks just shook their heads,"}],"type":"paragraph"},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"And said there is no use trying,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   Oh! Chloe, you’re too late;"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"But as I was rising sixty,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   I had no time to wait."}]},{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"So I got a pair of glasses,"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"   And straight to work I went,","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"And never stopped till I could read"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   The hymns and Testament."}],"type":"paragraph"},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Then I got a little cabin"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"   A place to call my own—","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"text":"And I felt independent","type":"text"},{"type":"hard_break"},{"type":"text","text":"   As the queen upon her throne."}]}]},"updatedAt":722911284.419385,"postID":138599058}