Read the quotation from former enslaved person John Fields. Then answer the question. Why did enslaved people have to educate themselves? Enslaved people did not have the time to learn to read or write. Enslaved people were forced to set up their own schools. Teaching enslaved people to read and write was not allowed.

During the seventeenth century a. the english monarchy was temporarily replaced by a new government called the commonwealth. b. the english enjoyed an unprecedented period of economic and political security. c. the english government was seized by the puritans, who instituted a strict oligarchy. d. the english united with spain and holland to battle france for supremacy in the new world.