rade in nearly all the States of the
South, normal and graded schools in nearly all the large cities, and
parochial schools connected with many of the churches. The industrial
feature of these schools will appear most conspicuously in the details
given.

In the account of the larger schools, Fisk University, Talladega
College, Tougaloo University, Straight University and Tillotson
Institute, Austin, Texas, we give but in part the full extent of the
plan originally laid down by the Association, for it does not include
Hampton Institute, Atlanta University and Berea College, children of
the Association which have set up and are conducting housekeeping on
their own account.

The origin of Hampton Institute was in that first freedmen's school at
Fortress Monroe, enlarged year by year, and at length falling under
the sagacious eye of Gen. Armstrong, it opened to him in almost
prophetic vision what his great genius and untiring industry brought
to full consummation. Nor did the American Missionary Association send
this child forth empty-handed. It turned over to its use the one
hundred and twenty-five acres of beautiful land, with its buildings,
permanent and transient, on which the wonderful plant is now
established.

Atlanta University was founded by the Association, and under the wise
leadership of President Ware, and the steady support of the
Association for many years, it at length reached a condition of
independence and self-support.

Berea College, founded by the intrepid John G. Fee, a missionary of
the American Missionary Association, owned by its own Board of
Trustees from the first, was for many years assisted by the generous
contributions of the Association.

These three institutions, though independent of the Association and
not under its care or support, if added to the list already given of
our higher schools, will show a line of educational lighthouses
stretching from the Atlantic to the Gulf and thence into the heart of
Texas. Such was the original plan of the Association, and such has
been the remarkably successful result.

But the work of the Association is not confined to the Negro race. In
the mountains of the South it touches with the wand of Christian
education the noble Highlanders of America with their proud
achievements and yet with their long-neglected education, needing the
inspiring uplift of the school and cultured church. To these
influences they yield a most hearty response, and no bri