[[return]]16. Abdy, "Journal of a Tour in the United States," III, 62.

[[return]]17. Jay, "Miscellaneous Writings on Slavery," 27, 373, 385, 387; Minutes of the Convention of the Colored People of Ohio, 1849.

[[return]]18. Barber, "A Report on the Condition of the Colored People of Ohio," 1840.

[[return]]19. Proceedings of the Ohio Antislavery Convention, 1835, 19.

[[return]]20. Ibid.

[[return]]21. Proceedings of the Ohio Antislavery Convention, 1835, 19.

[[return]]22. African Repository, V, 185.

[[return]]23. African Repository, V, 185.

[[return]]24. For a lengthy account of these efforts see Woodson's "The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861," 245, 328, 329; and Hickok, "The Negro in Ohio," 83, 88.

[[return]]25. Fairchild, "Oberlin: Its Origin, Progress and Results."