One of the guests was quite astonished to see his servant
recite a piece of poetry which he had learned for this occasion.[10]
Confining his operations to the kitchen, another such teacher of this
plantation was unusually successful in instructing the adult male
slaves. Five of these Negroes experienced such enlightenment that they
became preachers.[11]
[Footnote 1: Drew, _Refugee_, p. 97.]
[Footnote 2: Ibid., p. 45.]
[Footnote 3: Ibid., p. 185.]
[Footnote 4: Snowden, _Autobiography_, p. 23.]
[Footnote 5: Albert, _The House of Bondage_, p. 125.]
[Footnote 6: Birney, _The Grimke Sisters_, p. 11.]
[Footnote 7: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p. 613.]
[Footnote 8: This fact is stated in one of her letters.]
[Footnote 9: Abdy, _Journal of a Residence and Tour in U.S.A._,
1833-1834. P. 346.]
[Footnote 10: Smedes, _A Southern Planter_, pp. 79-80.]
[Footnote 11: Ibid., p. 80.]
Planters themselves sometimes saw to the education of their slaves.
Ephraim Waterford was bound out in Virginia until he was twenty-one on
the condition that the man to whom he was hired should teach him to
read.[1] Mrs. Isaac Riley and Henry Williamson, of Maryland, did not
attend school but were taught by their master to spell and read but
not to write.
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