[1] A prominent
white man of Memphis taught Mrs. Mary Church Terrell's mother French
and English. The father of Judge R.H. Terrell was well-grounded
in reading by his overseer during the absence of his master from
Virginia.[2] A fugitive slave from Essex County of the same State was
not allowed to go to school publicly, but had an opportunity to learn
from white persons privately.[3] The master of Charles Henry Green, a
slave of Delaware, denied him all instruction, but he was permitted
to study among the people to whom he was hired.[4] M.W. Taylor of
Kentucky studied under attorneys J.B. Kinkaid and John W. Barr, whom
he served as messenger.[5] Ignoring his master's orders against
frequenting a night school, Henry Morehead of Louisville learned to
spell and read sufficiently well to cause his owner to have the school
unceremoniously closed.[6]
[Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed._, 1871, p. 258.]
[Footnote 2: This is based on the statements of Judge and Mrs.
Terrell.]
[Footnote 3: Drew, _Refugee_, p. 335.]
[Footnote 4: Ibid., p. 96.]
[Footnote 5: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p. 933.]
[Footnote 6: Drew, _Refugee_, p.
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