John Hope Franklin

I'm going back to, it's not only because I've been teaching him lately, but because I would teach this about anybody.

I don't care what book you hand me, it is, from what John Hope Franklin did when he picked up Douglass' narrative, from slavery to freedom, the pathway from slavery to freedom is literacy.

Give me a blank piece of paper, and I'm gonna put a word on it, and then I'm gonna think of another word.

I'm gonna think of another word.

From there, George went on to talk his way into a pretty impressive resume.

According to historian John Hope Franklin, George is, quote, barely literate at this point in his life, but he doesn't let that stop him.

He talks his way into being admitted to Howard University, then leaves after a few months to pursue an even higher calling, the ministry.

In the 1870s, he's enrolled in Newton Theological Institution in Massachusetts.