INE GIVES EQUAL
SCHOOL PRIVILEGES TO WHITES AND BLACKS.--ST. FRANCIS ACADEMY FOR
COLORED GIRLS FOUNDED IN BALTIMORE IN 1831.--THE WELLS
SCHOOL.--THE FIRST SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN ESTABLISHED IN
BOSTON BY INTELLIGENT COLORED MEN IN 1798.--A SCHOOL-HOUSE FOR
THE COLORED CHILDREN BUILT AND PAID FOR OUT OF A FUND LEFT BY
ABIEL SMITH FOR THAT PURPOSE.--JOHN B. RUSSWORM ONE OF THE
TEACHERS AND AFTERWARD GOVERNOR OF THE COLONY OF CAPE PALMAS,
LIBERIA.--FIRST PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN ESTABLISHED
IN 1820.--MISSOURI PASSES STRINGENT LAWS AGAINST THE INSTRUCTION
OF NEGROES.--NEW YORK PROVIDES FOR THE EDUCATION OF
NEGROES.--ELIAS NEAU OPENS A SCHOOL IN NEW YORK CITY FOR NEGRO
SLAVES IN 1704.--"NEW YORK AFRICAN FREE SCHOOL" IN 1786.--VISIT
OF LAFAYETTE TO THE AFRICAN SCHOOLS IN 1824.--HIS
ADDRESS.--PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR COLORED CHILDREN IN NEW
YORK.--COLORED SCHOOLS IN OHIO.--"CINCINNATI HIGH SCHOOL" FOR
COLORED YOUTHS FOUNDED IN 1844.--OBERLIN COLLEGE OPENS ITS DOORS
TO COLORED STUDENTS.--THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COLORED SCHOOLS IN
PENNSYLVANIA BY ANTHONY BENEZET IN 1750.--HIS WILL.--"INSTITUTE
FOR COLORED YOUTHS" ESTABLISHED IN 1837.--"AVERY COLLEGE," AT
ALLEGHENY CITY, PENNSYLVANIA, FOUNDED IN 1849.--ASHMUN INSTITUTE,
OR LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, FOUNDED IN OCTOBER, 1856.--SOUTH CAROLINA
TAKES DEFINITE ACTION AGAINST THE EDUCATION OR PROMOTION OF THE
COLORED RACE IN 1800-1803-1834.--TENNESSEE MAKES NO
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST COLOR IN THE SCHOOL LAW OF 1840.--LITTLE
OPPORTUNITY AFFORDED IN VIRGINIA FOR THE COLORED MAN TO BE
ENLIGHTENED.--STRINGENT LAWS ENACTED.--HISTORY OF SCHOOLS FOR THE
COLORED POPULATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The institution of American slavery needed protection from the day of
its birth to the day of its death. Whips, thumbscrews, and manacles of
iron were far less helpful to it than the thraldom of the intellects
of its hapless victims. "Created a little lower than the angels,"
"crowned with glory and honor," armed with authority "over every
living creature," man was intended by his Maker to rule the world
through his intellect. The homogeneousness of the crude faculties of
man has been quite generally admitted throughout the world; while even
scientists, differing widely in many other things, have united in
ascribing to the human mind everywhere certain possibilit