[4] A southern planter offered a plantation for the
establishment of a suitable institution of learning,[5] a few masters
sent their slaves to eastern schools to be educated, and men organized
"education societies" in various parts to carry out this work at
shorter range. In 1817 colonizationists opened at Pasippany, New
Jersey, a school to give a four-year course to "African youth" who
showed "talent, discretion, and piety" and were able to read and
write.[6] Twelve years later another effort was made to establish a
school of this kind at Newark in that State,[7] while other promoters
of that faith were endeavoring to establish a similar institution at
Hartford, Connecticut,[8] all hoping to make use of the Kosciuszko
fund.[9]
[Footnote 1: _African Repository_, vol. i., p. 277.]
[Footnote 2: _African Repository_, vol. ii., p. 223.]
[Footnote 3: _Ibid._, vol. xxviii., pp. 271, 347; Child, _An Appeal_,
p. 144.]
[Footnote 4: _African Repository_, vol. i., p. 277.]
[Footnote 5: _Report of the Proceedings at the Organization of the
African Education Society_, p. 9.]
[Footnote 6: _African Repository_, vol. i., p. 276, and Griffin, _A
Plea for Africa_, p.
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