FOOTNOTES:
[1] The fact that John Wesley organized a Sunday-school in Savannah, Ga., in 1736, is recorded on a bronze tablet seen near the entrance of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in Savannah.
[2] Minutes of the Methodist Conference.
[3] Matlack, Slavery and Methodism, 29. Coke's Journal, 12, 13-14.
[4] One celebrated Negro, known as "Black Harry," was Bishop Asbury's travelling companion. When for any reason the Bishop could not fill an appointment the people were pleased to hear him. Matlack, Methodism, 29.
[5] Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1832.
[6] Ibid.
[7] Arnett, Budget; Woodson, History of the Negro Church, chapter IV.
[8] Wightman, Life of William Capers, 295-296.
[9] Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1844.
[10] Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1784; McTyeire, History of Methodism, 28.
[11] Minutes of the Methodist Conference, 1844.
[12] Tanner, African Methodism, 72.
[13] Special Report of the U. S. Commissioner of Education, 1871, pp. 372-373.
[14] Minutes of the Methodist Conference.
[15] The A. M. E. Church has Wilberforce University, Xenia, Ohio, with enrollment of 1,070 and an annual income of $145,000. This church has ten other schools with an enrollment of 4,448, several of which have college classes. The total annual income of all these schools is $309,820.00. There are also theological classes at several centers with total enrollment of 156.
The A. M. E. Z. Church has seven schools with an attendance of 2,128 and an annual income of $43,331.00. The leading school of this church is Livingstone College in North Carolina, with an attendance of 504 students and an annual income of $13,633.
[16] Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., has seven professors, 142 students, buildings and equipment $145,000 and an endowment of $500,000. Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., ranks A among medical colleges in the United States, has 43 teachers, 646 students, $350,000 in grounds and equipment and $560,000 in endowments and has graduated two thirds or more of the Negro physicians, dentists and pharmacists in the United States. Eleven colleges under the Board of Education for Negroes has 248 teachers; an enrollment of 4,326. Only a small proportion are below the eighth grade in scholarship.