1711, in the Colony of
Maryland, a _special enactment_ was passed to bar freedom by baptism and
in 1715, in South Carolina! See "_Stroud's Slave Laws_."

[2] At the time when France was on the eve of plunging deeply into the
slave trade and of ruining her colonies by the curse of Slavery, the
ABBE GREGOIRE stept forth in vindication of the Negro, and published his
celebrated work--"The Literature of Negroes." In this work he gives the
names and narrates the achievements of the distinguished Negroes,
writers, scholars, painters, philosophers, priests and Roman prelates,
in Spain, Portugal, France, England, Holland, Italy and Turkey who had
risen to eminence in the 15th century.

Not long after BLUMENBACH declared that "entire and large provinces of
Europe might be named, in which it would be difficult to meet with such
good writers, poets, philosophers, and correspondents of the French
Academy; and that moreover there is no savage people, who have
distinguished themselves by such examples of perfectibility and capacity
for scientific cultivation: and consequently that none can approach more
nearly to the polished nations of the globe than the Negro."

[3] "Oberlin College" in Ohio was the first opening its doors to the
Negro in 1836.

[4] "I am not so old as some of my young friends may suspect, but I am
too old to go into the business of 'carrying coals to Newcastle.' * * * *
The colored citizen of the U. S. has already graduated with respectable
standing from a course of 250 years in the University of the old-time
type of Manual labor. The South of to-day is what we see it largely
because the colored men and women at least during the past 250 years,
have not been lazy 'cumberers of the ground,' but the grand army of
laborers that has wrestled with nature and led these 16 States out of
the woods thus far on the highroad to material prosperity. It is not
especially necessary that the 2,000,000 of our colored children and
youth in the southern common schools should be warned against laziness,
and what has always and everywhere come of that since the foundation of
the world."

The Rev. A. D. Mayo, M. A., LL. D.
Address before State Teachers' Association (Colored)
Birmingham, Ala.

[5] I owe Mr. Anderson an apology for omitting this references to his
book on the delivery of this address. It was prepared while its author
was in a foreign land; but had passed entirely from his memory in the
preparation of this a