to useful
trades.

For, unquestionably, the most efficient means of promoting the
moral improvement of this degraded portion of the human family is
the institution of schools. And it must be obvious to every
thinking mind, that a portion of education will be absolutely
necessary to prepare the slave for the enjoyment of freedom; and
such has been the happy influence of it on the scholars in the
New York African Free School, that the Trustees in that city,
state, that no scholar who has been regularly educated in their
school, has ever been convicted of crime in any of their courts
of justice. We have no doubt that if similar means were used in
other places, the like happy result would be obtained. And it is
equally certain, that facts like these do more to obliterate idle
prejudice than all abstract reasoning on the subject.

The Convention have been highly pleased at this time by the
exhibition of some handsome specimens of the skill and talent of
some of the boys in the African school under the charge of
_Charles C. Andrews_, in New York; creditable alike to the
Teacher and the scholar. For a more particular description of
these articles, we refer to page 20 of the minutes of this
Convention.

We again call your attention to the following extract from our
Address last year, particularly applicable to the present
subject.

"As an incipient step to the Abolition of Slavery, we earnestly
recommend, that immediate application be made to the Legislatures
of States where Slavery exists, to prohibit the sale of slaves
out of the state. The traffic which is thus carried on from state
to state, is fruitful of evil consequences, not only depraving
the minds of those engaged in it, but producing the most cruel
separation of near connexions, and depriving its victims of
almost every incentive to conjugal fidelity or correctness of
conduct. Perhaps next in importance in meliorating the condition
of slaves, is the adoption of regulations for their religious
instruction, and the education of their children."

"And while the members of the several Societies are laboring in
the good work of universal emancipation, the Convention would
particularly urge them to use all suitable endeavours, mildly
yet earnestly, to prevail upon slave hold