Here and there
one found a family where humanity impelled the master, mistress, or
children, to the laborious task of private instruction. In consequence
of these undesirable conditions the Synod recommended that "slaves be
instructed in the common elementary branches of education."[4]
[Footnote 1: _African Repository_, vol. x., pp. 174, 205, and 245.]
[Footnote 2: _Ibid._, vol. xi., pp. 140 and 268.]
[Footnote 3: Goodell, _Slave Code_, pp. 323-324.]
[Footnote 4: _The Enormity of the Slave Trade, etc_., p. 74.]
Some of the objects of such charity turned out to be interesting
characters. Samuel Lowry of Tennessee worked and studied privately
under Rev. Mr. Talbot of Franklin College, and at the age of sixteen
was sufficiently advanced to teach with success. He united with the
Church of the Disciples and preached in that connection until 1859.[1]
In some cases colored preachers were judged sufficiently informed,
not only to minister to the needs of their own congregations, but to
preach to white churches. There was a Negro thus engaged in the State
of Florida.[2] Another colored man of unusual intelligence and much
prominence worked his way to the front in Giles County, Tennessee.
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