He helped to extend its sphere also
into the Middle States and New-England.[7]
[Footnote 1: Goodloe, _Southern Platform_, pp. 64-65.]
[Footnote 2: Wightman, _Life of Bishop William Capers_, p. 294.]
[Footnote 3: Jones, _Religious Instruction_, Introductory Chapter.]
[Footnote 4: Goodloe, _Southern Platform_, p. 64.]
[Footnote 5: _Ibid_., p. 65.]
[Footnote 6: _Ibid_., p. 66.]
[Footnote 7: _Niles Register_, vol. xvi., pp. 165-166.]
Bishop Meade was a representative of certain of his fellow-churchmen
who were passing through the transitory stage from the position of
advocating the thorough education of Negroes to that of recommending
mere verbal instruction. Agreeing at first with Rev. Thomas Bacon,
Bishop Meade favored the literary training of Negroes, and advocated
the extermination of slavery.[1] Later in life he failed to urge
his followers to emancipate their slaves, and did not entreat his
congregation to teach them to read. He was then committed to the
policy of only lessening their burden as much as possible without
doing anything to destroy the institution. Thereafter he advocated the
education and emancipation of the slaves only in connection with the
scheme of colonization, to which he looked for a solution of these
problems.
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