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[Footnote 2: _Special Report of US Com of Ed_, 1871, p 343]

[Footnote 3: Starr and Curtis, _Annotated Statutes of Illinois_, ch

105, p 2261]

In other States of the West and the North where few colored people were found, the solution of the probleal voters in the school an Colored children were enumerated with others to determine the basis for the apportionment of the school funds, and were allowed to attend the public schools Wisconsin granted Negroes equal school privileges[1]

After the adoption of a free constitution in 1857, Iowa ”deterhts by the color of his skin” Wherever the hite had served to restrict the privileges of persons of color it was stricken out to make it possible for them not only to bear arms and to vote but to attend public schools[2]

[Footnote 1: _Special Report of the US Com of Ed_, 1871, p 400]

[Footnote 2: _Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Iowa_, 1857, p 3 of the Constitution]

APPENDIX

DOcu resolutions on the subject treated in this part (the instruction of Negroes) are from the works of Dr Cotton Mather--Bishop William Meade

1st I would always remember, thatcare that they want nothing which ood for them, I would make the piety into the mind which I use with my children, may be properly and prudently used with my servants, they shall be partakers in the, wherein I eneration

2d I will see that my servants be furnished with bibles and be able and careful to read the lively oracles I will put bibles and other good and proper books into their hands; will allow them time to read and assure myself that they do not misspend this time--If I can discern any wicked books in their hands, I will take away those pestilential instruments of wickedness

3d I will have ious exercises of my family; and will drop, either in the exhortations, in the prayers or daily sacrifices of the faes as ion in thee or state of the servants will permit it to be done with decency, shall extend to them also,--And they shall be concerned in the conferences in which I ed with my family, in the repetition of the public sermons If any of them when they come to me shall not have learned the catechisive them a rehen they have accomplished it

5th I will be very inquisitive and solicitous about the company chosen by my servants; and with all possible earnestness will rescue the the companions of fools

6th Such of my servants as may be capable of the task, I will employ to teach lessons of piety toBut I would, by a particular artifice, contrive them to be such lessons, as may be for their own edification too

7th I will sometimes call my servants alone; talk to them about the state of their souls; tell thee them to do well and ”lay hold on eternal life,” and show them very particularly how they lorious Lord; how they may do all from a principle of obedience to him, and become entitled to the ”reward of the heavenly inheritance”

To those resolutions did I add the following pages as an appendix:

Age is nearly sufficient, with some masters to obliterate every letter and action in the history of a enerally buried under the ruins of an old carcase It is a barbarous inhumanity in s as cri their past services to have been virtues; gracious God, keep thy servants froratitude!

But then O servants, if you would obtain ”the reward of inheritance,”

each of you should set yourself to enquire ”how shall I approve myself such a servant, that the Lordin it?” Certainly there are s Let your studies with your continual prayers for the welfare of the fa: and the exae render you such If you will but remember four words and attempt all that is comprised in them, Obedience, Honesty, Industry, and Piety, you will be the blessings and Josephs of the families in which you live Let these four words be distinctly and frequently recollected; and cheerfully perform all your business from this consideration--that it is obedience to heaven, and from thence will leave a recoan, ”That a master may receive a benefit from a servant”; and ”what is done with the affection of a friend, ceases to be the act of a mere servant” Even the reat service to it, by instructing the infants and instilling into their oodness--In the Appendix of Rev Thomas Bacon's _Sermons Addressed to Masters and Servants_

EDIT DU ROI

Concernant les Esclaves Negres des Colonies, qui seront amenes, ou envoyes en France Donne a Paris au mois d'Octobre 1716

I Nous avons connu la necessite qu'il y a d'y soutenir l'execution de l'edit du lise Catholique, Apostolique et Romaine, pourvoit a ce qui concerne l'etat et la qualite des Esclaves Negres, qu'on entretient dans lesdites colonies pour la culture des terres; et comme nous avons ete informes que plusieurs habitans de nos Isles de l'Amerique desirent envoyer en France quelques-uns de leur Esclaves pour les confirion, et pour leur faire apprendre en meme tems quelque Art et Metier dont les colonies recevroient beaucoup d'utilite par le retour de ces Esclaves; naient que les Esclaves ne pretendent etre libres en arrivant en France, ce qui pourroit causer auxdits habitans une perte considerable, et les detourner d'un objet aussi pieux et aussi utile

II Si quelques-uns des habitans de nos colonies, ou officiers employes sur l'Etat desdites colonies, veulent ares, de l'un & de l'autre sexe, en qualite de doe dans notre Religion, tant par les instructions qu'ils recevront, que par l'exemple de nos autre sujets, et pour leur faire apprendre en meme tems quelque Art et Metier, dont les colonies puissent retirer de l'utilite, par le retour de ces Esclaves, lesdits proprietaires seront tenus d'en obtenir la permission des Gouverneurs Generaux, ou Commandans dans chaque Isle, laquelle permission contiendra le nonalement--Code Noir ou Recueil d'edits, declarations, et arrets concernant des Esclaves Negres Discipline el le cores des isles francaises de l'Alemens, edits, declarations, et arrets concernant le commerce, l'administration de la justice et la police des colonies francaises de l'Aes avec le Code Noir et l'addition audit Code) (Jefferson's copy) A Paris chez les Libraires associes, 1745