.--Colored Men turn their Attention to the Education of
their own Race.--John V. De Grasse, the first Colored Man
admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society.--Prominent Colored
Men of New York and Philadelphia.--The Organization of the
African Methodist Episcopal and Colored Baptist
Churches.--Colored Men distinguish themselves in the
Pulpit.--Report to the Ohio Anti-slavery Society of Colored
People in Cincinnati in 1835.--Many purchase their
Freedom.--Henry Boyd, the Mechanic and Builder.--He becomes a
Successful Manufacturer in Cincinnati.--Samuel T. Wilcox, the
Grocer.--His Success in Business in Cincinnati.--Ball & Thomas,
the Photographers.--Colored People of Cincinnati evince a Desire
to take Care of themselves.--Lydia P. Mott establishes a Home for
Colored Orphans.--The Organization effected in 1844.--Its
Success.--Formation of a Colored Military Company called "The
Attucks Guards."--Emigration of Negroes to Liberia.--The Colored
People live down much Prejudice 125

CHAPTER XII.

NEGRO SCHOOL LAWS. 1619-1860.

The Possibilities of the Human Intellect.--Ignorance Favorable to
Slavery.--An Act by the Legislature of Alabama imposing a Penalty
on any one instructing a Colored Person.--Educational Privileges
of the Creoles in the City of Mobile.--Prejudice against Colored
Schools in Connecticut.--The Attempt of Miss Prudence Crandall to
admit Colored Girls into her School at Canterbury.--The
Indignation of the Citizens at this Attempt to mix the Races in
Education.--The Legislature of Connecticut passes a Law
abolishing the School.--The Building assaulted by a Mob.--Miss
Crandall arrested and imprisoned for teaching Colored Children
against the Law.--Great Excitement.--The Law finally
repealed.--An Act by the Legislature of Delaware taxing Persons
who brought into, or sold Slaves out of, the State.--Under Act of
1829 Money received for the Sale of Slaves in Florida was added
to the School Fund in that State.--Georgia prohibits the
Education of Colored Persons under Heavy Penalty.--Illinois
establishes Separate Schools for Colored Children.--The "Free
Mission Institute" at Quincy, Illinois, destroyed by a Missouri
Mob.--Numerous and Cruel Slave Laws in Kentucky retard the
Education of the Negroes.--An A