If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.
From Jupiter Hammon
It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.
We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.
All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.
As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.
He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.
Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.
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