After spending the afternoon
inspecting the schools the General pronounced them the "best
disciplined and the most interesting schools of children" he had ever
seen.[7]
[Footnote 1: Andrews, _History of the New York African Free Schools_,
p. 18.]
[Footnote 2: Andrews, _History of the New York African Free Schools_,
p. 17.]
[Footnote 3: _Ibid._, p. 18.]
[Footnote 4: _Ibid._, p. 19.]
[Footnote 5: _Proceedings of the Am. Convention of Abolition Soc._,
1818, P. 9; Adams, _Anti-slavery_, p. 142.]
[Footnote 6: _Proceedings of the American Convention_, etc., 1820.]
[Footnote 7: Andrews, _History of the New York African Free Schools_,
p. 20.]
The outlook for the education of Negroes in New Jersey was unusually
bright. Carrying out the recommendations of the Haddonfield Quarterly
Meeting in 1777, the Quakers of Salem raised funds for the education
of the blacks, secured books, and placed the colored children of
the community at school. The delegates sent from that State, to the
Convention of the Abolition Societies in 1801, reported that there had
been schools in Burlington, Salem, and Trenton for the education of
the Negro race, but that they had been closed.
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