Part 19 (2/2)

Stewart of that city attended the schools of Henry Adaan his studies there in Robert Lane's school and took writing froroes had schools in Tennessee also RL Perry was during these years attending a school at Nashville[7] An uncle of Dr JE Moorland spent so medicine in that city

[Footnote 1: Bremer, _The Homes of the New World_, vol ii, p 499]

[Footnote 2: Abdy, _Journal of a Residence and Tour in USA_, 1833-34, p 346]

[Footnote 3: _Ibid_, pp 346-348]

[Footnote 4: Tower, _Slavery Unh the US and Canada_, p 185; _Niles Register_, vol lxxii, p 322; and Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 631]

[Footnote 5: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 603]

[Footnote 6: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 629]

[Footnote 7: _Ibid_, p 620]

Many of these opportunities were ion In fact the instruction of Negroes after the enact of religion with letters during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Thousands of Negroes like Edward Patterson and Nat Turner learned to read and write in Sabbath-schools White auntlet of mobs, but like a Baptist preacher of South Carolina as threatened with expulsion from his church, if he did not desist, they worked on and overcame the local prejudice

When preachers themselves dared not undertake this task it was often done by their children, whose benevolent inked at as an indulgence to the clerical profession This charity, however, was not restricted to the narrow circle of the clergy Believing with churchmen that the Bible is the revelation of God, many lay his Maker directly[1] Negroes, therefore, almost worshi+ped the Bible, and their anxiety to read it was their greatest incentive to learn Many southerners braved the terrors of public opinion and taught their Negroes to read the Scriptures To this extent General coxe of Fluvanna County, Virginia, taught about one hundred of his adult slaves[2] While serving as a professor of the Military Institute at Lexington, Stonewall Jackson taught a class of Negroes in a Sunday-school[3]

[Footnote 1: Orr, ”An Address on the Need of Education in the South, 1879”]

[Footnote 2: This statement is made by several of General coxe's slaves who are still living]

[Footnote 3: _School Journal_, vol lxxx, p 332]

Further interest in the cause was shown by the Evangelical Society of the Synods of North Carolina and Virginia in 1834[1] Later Presbyterians of Alabahten their slaves[2] The attitude of many mountaineers of Kentucky ell set forth in the address of the Synod of 1836, proposing a plan for the instruction and ehout the land, so far as they could learn, there was but one school in which slaves could be taught during the week The light of three or four Sabbath-schools was seen ”glittering through the darkness” of the black population of the whole State Here and there one found a family where humanity impelled the master, mistress, or children, to the laborious task of private instruction In consequence of these undesirable conditions the Synod recommended that ”slaves be instructed in the common elementary branches of education”[4]

[Footnote 1: _African Repository_, vol x, pp 174, 205, and 245]

[Footnote 2: _Ibid_, vol xi, pp 140 and 268]

[Footnote 3: Goodell, _Slave Code_, pp 323-324]

[Footnote 4: _The Enormity of the Slave Trade, etc_, p 74]

So characters Samuel Lowry of Tennessee worked and studied privately under Rev Mr Talbot of Franklin College, and at the age of sixteen was sufficiently advanced to teach with success He united with the Church of the Disciples and preached in that connection until 1859[1]

In soed sufficiently inforations, but to preach to white churches There was a Negro thus engaged in the State of Florida[2] Another colored ence and much prominence worked his way to the front in Giles County, Tennessee In 1859 he was the pastor of a Hard-shell Baptist Church, the membershi+p of which was composed of the best white people in the community He was so well prepared for his work that out of a four days' argued victor Froation he received a salary of from six to seven hundred dollars a year[3]

[Footnote 1: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p 144]

[Footnote 2: Bremer, _Homes of the New World_, vol ii, pp 488-491]

[Footnote 3: _The Richmond Enquirer_, July, 1859; and _Afr

Repository_, vol xxxv, p 255]

Statistics of this period show that the proportionately largest nuroes who learned in spite of opposition were found a few slaves, and having no permanent attachment to the institution, those mountaineers did not yield to the reactionaries ere deterroes in heathendom Kentucky and Tennessee did not expressly forbid the education of the colored people[1] Conditions were probably better in Kentucky than in Tennessee Traveling in Kentucky about this tiroes who though originally slaves saved sufficient fros to purchase their freedom and provide for the education of their children[2]