[99] Ibid., 299.
[100] Allen, Slave Songs, Song 103, p. 83.
[101] Am. J. Relig. Psy. and Ed., 3: 328.
[102] Ibid., 294.
[103] Ibid., 293.
[104] Hampton and its Students, p. 173.
[PRUDENCE CRANDALL]
Prior to the Civil War, education for the American of color, was for the most part surreptitiously obtained. There were, however, a few fearless men and women of the white race, who, endowed with a magnanimous spirit and indomitable will, rose above the sordid plane of self-advancement and comfort, brooked the tide of social ostracism and censure to a realm of true altruism in behalf of the circumstantially weak and defenseless race.