The southern connection lost much of its
interest in the dark race, and fell back on the policy of the verbal
instruction and memory training of the blacks that they might never
become thoroughly enlightened as to their condition.
[Footnote 1: Baird, _Collections_, etc., pp. 814-817.]
[Footnote 2: _Ibid._, p. 815.]
[Footnote 3: _Enormity of the Slave Trade_, etc. p. 67.]
[Footnote 4: Baird, _Collections_, etc., pp. 816, 817.]
Despite the fact that southern Methodists and Presbyterians generally
ceased to have much anti-slavery ardor, there continued still in
the western slave States and in the mountains of Virginia and North
Carolina, a goodly number of these churchmen, who suffered no
diminution of interest in the enlightenment of Negroes. In the States
of Kentucky and Tennessee friends of the race were often left free to
instruct them as they wished. Many of the people who settled those
States came from the Scotch-Irish stock of the Appalachian Mountains,
where early in the nineteenth century the blacks were in some cases
treated as equals of the whites.[1]
[Footnote 2: _Fourth Annual Report of the American Antislavery
Society_, New York, 1837, P.
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