[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.