[495] See the session laws of the State Legislatures, and Woodson's Education of the Negro Prior to 1861, pp. 151-178.
[496] Goodell, Slave Code, and Hurd, The Law of Freedom and Bondage, II, pp. 1-218.
[497] Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration, Chapter II.
[498] The Journal of Negro History, I, p. 276; II, p. 209.
[499] Frothingham, Gerrit Smith, pp. 94-143.
[500] Hurd, Law of Freedom and Bondage, II, p. 56.
[501] Frothingham, Gerrit Smith, p. 103.
[502] Frothingham, Gerrit Smith, 104.
[503] Letter of Gerrit Smith to Theodore S. Wright, Charles B. Ray, and J. McCune Smith.
[504] Ibid.