[6] The people of Georgia,
however, were not unanimously in favor of keeping the Negro artisan
down. We have already observed that at the request of the Agricultural
Convention of that State in 1852 the legislature all but passed a bill
providing for the education of slaves to increase their efficiency and
attach them to their masters.[7]
[Footnote 1: Buckingham, _Slave States of America_, vol. ii., p. 112.]
[Footnote 2: Du Bois and Dill, _The Negro American Artisan_, p. 36.]
[Footnote 3: Du Bois and Dill, _The Negro American Artisan_, pp. 31,
32, 33.]
[Footnote 4: Du Bois and Dill, _The Negro American Artisan_, p. 34,
and _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed._, 1871, p. 365.]
[Footnote 5: Du Bois and Dill, _The Negro American Artisan_, pp. 31,
32.]
[Footnote 6: Du Bois and Dill, _The Negro American Artisan_, p. 32.]
[Footnote 7: _Special Report of the U.S. Com. of Ed._, 1871, p. 339.]
It was unfortunate that the free people of color in the North had
not taken up vocational training earlier in the century before the
laboring classes realized fraternal consciousness. Once pitted against
the capitalists during the Administration of Andrew Jackson the
working classes learned to think that their interests differed
materially from those of the rich, whose privileges had multiplied at
the expense of the poor.
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