"[1] She was informed,
too, that there were in Georgia and Florida planters who had
established schools for the education of the children of their slaves
with the intention of preparing them for living as "good free human
beings."[2] Frances Anne Kemble noted such instances in her diary.[3]
The most interesting of these cases was discovered by the Union Army
on its march through Georgia. Unsuspected by the slave power and
undeterred by the terrors of the law, a colored woman by the name of
Deveaux had for thirty years conducted a Negro school in the city of
Savannah.[4]
[Footnote 1: Bremer, _The Homes of the New World_, vol. ii., p. 499.]
[Footnote 2: _Ibid._, p. 491; Burke, _Reminiscences of Georgia_, p.
85.]
[Footnote 3: Kemble, _Journal_, etc., p. 34.]
[Footnote 4: _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed._, 1871, p. 340.]
The city Negroes of Virginia continued to maintain schools despite
the fact that the fear of servile insurrection caused the State to
exercise due vigilance in the execution of the laws. The father of
Richard De Baptiste of Fredericksburg made his own residence a school
with his children and a few of those of his relatives as pupils.
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