6. What addition to the School Fund did North Carolina receive in 1837?
7. How was the fund further increased?
8. Can you mention the legislation at this period affecting school matters?
9. What denominational schools were founded about this time?
10. What is said of the "old-field schools"? 11. Where were the leading male schools, and what is said of the usefulness?
12. What female schools are mentioned? What is said of St. Mary's School? What is said of other schools?
CHAPTER XLIX.
SLAVERY AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.
A. D. 1842 TO 1844.
1. When the year of our Lord 1842 had come, peace and prosperity were in all portions of North Carolina. Society was still divided into three classes. These were: the white people, the slaves and the free negroes. The latter class had originated by manumission, and were numerous in some of the eastern counties. They had lost the right of suffrage by the action of the State Convention of 1835.