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d) No
City children who worked and slave children rarely had the opportunity to go to school. Sometimes, in the case of a slave child, the plantation master or the master’s child might teach a slave to read and write, but not often. By the 1830s and 1840s, in fact, the state legislatures of many southern states had made it a crime to teach a slave how to read and write. As for children who worked, their work days were so long—ten to twelve hours was not unheard of—that there was no time to go to school.
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