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[Footnote 5: Ibid, p 368]

[Footnote 6: This is his own stateroes often secured to them the educational facilities then afforded the superior race The indulgent teacher of J Morris of North Carolina was his white father, his master[1]

WJ White acquired his education frohter of her o to Cincinnati to be educated, while her sister was sent to a southern town to learn the milliner's trade[3] Then there were cases like that of Josiah Settle's white father After the passage of the law forbidding free Negroes to remain in the State of Tennessee, he took his children to Hamilton, Ohio, to be educated and there married his actual wife, their colored iven by his son]

[Footnote 2: _The Crisis_, vol v, p 119]

[Footnote 3: Drew, _Refugee_, p 143]

[Footnote 4: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 539]

The very employment of slaves in business establish in stores often acquired a fair education by assisting clerks Some slaves were clerks themselves Under the observation of EP Burke ca to one of the best families of Savannah He could read, write, cipher, and transact business so intelligently that his master often committed important trusts to his care[1] BK

Bruce, while still a slave, educated hi at the printer's trade in Brunswick, Missouri Even farther south where slavery assumed its worst for to the New Orleans _Commercial Bulletin_ a letter on African colonization, John McDonogh stated that the work imposed on his slaves required soly provided In 1842 he had had no white ned this task to his intelligent colored o in person once in sixHe says, ”They were, besides, my men of business, enjoyed my confidence, were my clerks, transacted all my affairs, made purchases of materials, collected my rents, leased my houses, took care of my property and effects of every kind, and that with an honesty and fidelity which was proof against every te in Mississippi in 1852, Olroup of slaves all of whom could read, whereas the master himself was entirely illiterate He tookhis loyal, capable, and intelligent Negroes[3]

[Footnote 1: Burke, _Reives in her journal an interesting account of her observations in Georgia She says: ”I hted, surprised, and the very least perplexed, by the sudden petition on the part of our young waiter, Aleck, that I will teach hient lad of about sixteen, and preferred his request with urgent hu I will do it; and yet, it is siovernhteous laws are made to be broken--perhaps--but then you see, I am a woman, and Mr---- stands between me and the penalty-- I certainly intend to teach Aleck to read; and I'll teach every other creature that wants to learn” See Keh, ”Letter on African Colonization”]

[Footnote 3: Oldom_, vol ii, p 70]

White persons deeply interested in Negroes taught theardless of public opinion and the law Dr Alexander T Augusta of Virginia learned to read while serving white ht Mrs Mary Church Terrell's e RH Terrell ell-grounded in reading by his overseer during the absence of his itive slave froo to school publicly, but had an opportunity to learn from white persons privately[3] The master of Charles Henry Green, a slave of Delaware, denied hi the people to whom he was hired[4] MW Taylor of Kentucky studied under attorneys JB Kinkaid and John W Barr, whoainst frequenting a night school, Henry Morehead of Louisville learned to spell and read sufficiently well to cause his owner to have the school unceremoniously closed[6]

[Footnote 1: _Special Report of the US Com of Ed_, 1871, p 258]

[Footnote 2: This is based on the statee and Mrs

Terrell]

[Footnote 3: Drew, _Refugee_, p 335]

[Footnote 4: Ibid, p 96]

[Footnote 5: Siee_, p 180]

The educational experiences of President Scarborough and of Bishop Turner show that so to roes President Scarborough began to attend school in his native hoe of six years He went out ostensibly to play, keeping his books concealed under his arht hours each day in school until he could read well and had raular lessons in writing under an old South Carolinian, JC Tholass, President Scarborough received much instruction from his white playmates[1]

[Footnote 1: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 410]

Bishop Turner of Newberry Court House, in South Carolina, purchased a spelling book and secured the services of an old white lady and a white boy, who in violation of the State law taught him to spell as far as two syllables[1] The white boy's brother stopped hi out that such an instructor was liable to arrest For soentlee of thirteen his mother employed a white lady to teach hinant white persons of the coe of fifteen he was eratiated himself by his unusual power to please people

Thereafter these ht hi he wanted to know about arithraphy, and astronomy[2]

[Footnote 1: Bishop Turner says that when he started to learn there were a his acquaintances three colored men who had learned to read the Bible in Charleston See Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 806]

[Footnote 2: Ibid, p 806]

Often favorite slaves were taught by white children By hiding books in a hayloft and getting the white children to teach hiinia, obtained an ele as overseer for his Scotch-Irish master, Daniel J Lockhart of the same commonwealth learned to read under the instruction of his owner's boys They were not interrupted in their benevolent work[2] In the same e of the common branches[3] John Baptist Snowden of Maryland was secretly instructed by his owner's children[4] Uncle Cephas, a slave of Parson Winslow of Tennessee, reported that the white children taught hiood cook He was never without books during his stay with his ht her littleht up in the family of Honorable JM