[6] From other
communities of that section came such useful men as Rev. J.W. Malone,
an influential minister of Iowa; Rev. D.R. Roberts, a very successful
pastor of Chicago; Bishop C.T. Shaffer of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church; Rev. John G. Mitchell, for many years the Dean of
the Theological Department of Wilberforce University; and President
S.T. Mitchell, once the head of the same institution.[7]
[Footnote 1: This statement is based on the accounts of various
western freedmen.]
[Footnote 2: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p. 113.]
[Footnote 3: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p. 829.]
[Footnote 4: _Ibid._, p. 948.]
[Footnote 5: _Ibid._, p. 590.]
[Footnote 6: _Ibid._, p. 1023.]
[Footnote 7: Wright, "Negro Rural Communities in Indiana," _Southern
Workman_, vol. xxxvii., p. 169.]
In the colored settlements of Canada the outlook for Negro education
was still brighter. This better opportunity was due to the high
character of the colonists, to the mutual aid resulting from the
proximity of the communities, and to the cooeperation of the Canadians.
The previous experience of most of these adventurers as sojourners in
the free States developed in them such noble traits that they did not
have to be induced to ameliorate their condition.
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