I want to know the answer to the following question:
Slaves were not allowed to do what?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Tracing the genealogy of African Americans can be a very difficult process, especially for descendants of Indigenous Americans, because African Americans who were slaves were forbidden to learn to read and write, and a majority of Indigenous Americans neither spoke English, nor read or wrote it.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: yes