This would further destroy them because
the only way that black people would be
able to learn, would now be through
images.
According to David Freedberg, in his
work: The Power of Images, “Pictures
were justified because they were the
books of the illiterate...and writers like
Martin Luther [a white Christian]
emphasized the value of pictures which
showed histories. Histories, in the broad
sense, meant pictures and sculptures
with narrative subjects from the Bible.”
So after the Hebrews that were living in
Europe were conquered, the new class of
illiterate blacks had to learn a
whitewashed history; a history they
would not know was originally their own.