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Robert Smalls[5] of South Carolina and Alfred T. Jones[6] of Kentucky
began their education in this manner.
[Footnote 1: Mott, _Biographical Sketches_, p. 87.]
[Footnote 2: Redpath, _Roving Editor_, etc., p. 161.]
[Footnote 3: Parsons, _Inside View_, etc., p. 248.]
[Footnote 4: Burke, _Reminiscences of Georgia_, p. 85.]
[Footnote 5: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p. 126.]
[Footnote 6: Drew, _Refugee_, p. 152.]
Probably the best example of this class was Harrison Ellis of Alabama.
At the age of thirty-five he had acquired a liberal education by his
own exertions. Upon examination he proved himself a good Latin and
Hebrew scholar and showed still greater proficiency in Greek. His
attainments in theology were highly satisfactory. _The Eufaula
Shield_, a newspaper of that State, praised him as a man courteous in
manners, polite in conversation, and manly in demeanor. Knowing how
useful Ellis would be in a free country, the Presbyterian Synod of
Alabama purchased him and his family in 1847 at a cost of $2500 that
he might use his talents in elevating his own people in Liberia.[1]
[Footnote 1: _Niles Register_, vol. lxxi., p. 296.
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