it has never been acceptable black folks uniting; in fact, it's always been considered illegal, esp. for us to know and tell the truth. So imagine the impact black women uniting has on the nerves of America- Mario A. Vernon Frederick Douglass wrote on learning to read, “The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I can regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity.”
