Philadelphia had seven colored schools in 1797.[5]
[Footnote 1: _Ibid_., p. 251.]
[Footnote 2: Quaker Pamphlet, p. 42.]
[Footnote 3: Wickersham, _History of Ed. in Pa_., p. 252.]
[Footnote 4: _Ibid_., p. 251.]
[Footnote 5: Turner, _The Negro in Pa_., p. 128.]
The next decade was of larger undertakings.[1] The report of the
Pennsylvania Abolition Society of 1801 shows that there had been an
increasing interest in Negro education. For this purpose the society
had raised funds to the amount of $530.50 per annum for three
years.[2] In 1803 certain other friends of the cause left for this
purpose two liberal benefactions, one amounting to one thousand
dollars, and the other to one thousand pounds.[3] With these
contributions the Quakers and Abolitionists erected in 1809 a handsome
building valued at four thousand dollars. They named it Clarkson Hall
in honor of the great friend of the Negro race.[4] In 1807 the Quakers
met the needs of the increasing population of the city by founding an
additional institution of learning known as the Adelphi School.[5]
[Footnote 1: Parish, _Remarks on the Slavery_, etc., p. 43.]
[Footnote 2: _Proceedings of the American Conv_.
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