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[Footnote 1: Wickersham, _Education in Pennsylvania_, p. 248.]
[Footnote 2: _Life of Martin R. Delaney_, p. 33.]
[Footnote 3: _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed._, 1871, p. 214.]
[Footnote 4: Hickok, _The Negro in Ohio_, p. 88.]
The concentration of the freedmen and fugitives at Cincinnati was
followed by efforts to train them for higher service. The Negroes
themselves endeavored to provide their own educational facilities in
opening in 1820 the first colored school in that city. This school
did not continue long, but another was established the same year.
Thereafter one Mr. Wing, who kept a private institution, admitted
persons of color to his evening classes. On account of a lack of
means, however, the Negroes of Cincinnati did not receive any
systematic instruction before 1834. After that year the tide turned in
favor of the free blacks of that section, bringing to their assistance
a number of daring abolitionists, who helped them to educate
themselves. Friends of the race, consisting largely of the students of
Lane Seminary, had then organized colored Sunday and evening schools,
and provided for them scientific and literary lectures twice a week.
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