It was provided, too, that whoever used any language or became instrumental in bringing into the State any paper, book, or pamphlet inducing this discontent should suffer practically the same penalty.

All persons who should teach, or permit or cause to be taught, any slave to read or write, should be imprisoned not less than one month nor more than twelve.[4] [Footnote 1: Bullard and Curry, _A New Digest of the Statute Laws of the State of Louisiana_, p.

161.] [Footnote 2: Coffin, _Slave Insurrections_, p.

22.] [Footnote 3: Walker mentioned "our wretchedness in consequence of slavery, our wretchedness in consequence of ignorance, our wretchedness in consequence of the preachers of the religion of Jesus Christ, and our wretchedness in consequence of the colonization plan." See _Walker's Appeal_.] [Footnote 4: Acts passed at the Ninth Session of the Legislature of Louisiana, p.

96.] Yielding to the demand of slaveholders, Georgia passed a year later a law providing that any Negro who should teach another to read or write should be punished by fine and whipping.