4. The importance of industrial education in the growth and development of the Negro-American is no new doctrine in the creed of the representative colored people of the country. Before Hampton and Tuskegee reared their walls—aye, before Booker T. Washington was born, Frederick Douglass and the Colored Convention of 1853, had commissioned Mrs. Stowe to obtain funds to establish an Agriculture and Industrial College. Long before Frederick Douglass had left Maryland by the Under Ground Railroad, but for the opposition of the white people of Connecticut, and within the echo of Yale College, would have stood the first institution dedicated to our enlightenment and social regeneration.
John W. Cromwell.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
1 “Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman”.—Austin Steward.
2 “Life and Times”.—Frederick Douglass.
3 Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro.—Sam’l. R. Ward.
4 The Life of Arthur Tappan.—Lewis Tappan.
5 History of the Negro in America.—George W. Williams.
6 William Lloyd Garrison.—His Sons.