In 1815 these schools were
offering free instruction to three hundred boys and girls, and to a
number of adults attending evening schools. These victories had been
achieved despite the fact that in regard to some of the objects of the
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade "a tide of prejudice,
popular and legislative, set strongly against them."[4] After 1818,
however, help was obtained from the State to educate the colored
children of Columbia and Philadelphia.
[Footnote 1: _Proceedings of the American Conv_., 1809, p. 16, and
1812, p. 16.]
[Footnote 2: Wickersham, _History of Ed. in Pa_., p. 252.]
[Footnote 3: _Proceedings of the American Convention_, etc., 1812,
Report from Philadelphia.]
[Footnote 4: _Ibid_., 1815, Report from Phila.]
The assistance obtained from the State, however, was not taken as a
pretext for the cessation of the labors on the part of those who had
borne the burden for more than a century. The faithful friends of the
colored race remained as active as ever. In 1822 the Quakers in the
Northern Liberties organized the Female Association which maintained
one or more schools.[1] That same year the Union Society founded in
1810 for the support of schools and domestic manufactures for the
benefit of the "African race and people of color" was conducting three
schools for adults.
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