| The white population in 1830 | 296,806 |
| The coloured | 220,017 |
Alabama.—No schools.
Mississippi.—No schools.
Missouri.—No schools.
Louisiana.—Instead of schools, a law making imprisonment the punishment of teaching a slave to read.
Tennessee.—A fund is set to accumulate for the purpose of hereafter encouraging schools, colleges, and academies.
Kentucky.—The Common School system was established by law, and provisions made for the division of the counties into districts, and the levying of the poll and property taxes for the purpose.
"The Louisville Advertiser announces the establishment by that city of a school at the public expense, stated to be the first south of the Ohio. It is opened to the children of all the citizens. The number of pupils entered is 300."—American Annual Register.
The Free States in 1833 to 1835.
Maine, 1835.