Thereafter the colonizationists found it advisable to restrict their efforts to individual cases.  Not much was said about what they were doing, but now and then appeared notices of Negroes who had been privately prepared in the South or publicly in the North for professional work in Liberia.  Dr. William Taylor and Dr. Fleet were thus educated in medicine in the District of Columbia.[1] In the same way John V. DeGrasse, of New York, and Thomas J. White,[2] of Brooklyn, were allowed to complete the Medical Course at Bowdoin in 1849.  Garrison Draper, who had acquired his literary education at Dartmouth, studied law in Baltimore under friends of the colonization cause, and with a view to going to Liberia passed the examination of the Maryland Bar in 1857.[3] In 1858 the Berkshire Medical School graduated two colored doctors, who were gratuitously educated by the American Colonization Society.  The graduating class thinned out, however, and one of the professors resigned because of their attendance.[4]

[Footnote 1:  Special Report of the U.S.  Com. of Ed., 1871, and African Repository, vol. x., p. 10.]

[Footnote 2:  Niles Register, vol. lxxv., p. 384.]

[Footnote 3:  African Repository, vol. xxxiv., pp. 26 and 27.]

[Footnote 4:  Ibid., p. 30.]

Not all colonizationists, however, had submitted to this policy of mere individual preparation of those emigrating to Liberia.  Certain of their organizations still believed that it was only through educating the free people of color sufficiently to see their humiliation that a large number of them could be induced to leave this country.  As long as they were unable to enjoy the finer things of life, they could not be expected to appreciate the value and use of liberty.  It was argued that instead of remaining in this country to wage war on its institutions, the highly enlightened Negroes would be glad to go to a foreign land.[1] By this argument some colonizationists were induced to do more for the general education of the free blacks than they had considered it wise to do during the time of the bold attempts at servile insurrection.[2] In fact, many of the colored schools of the free States were supported by ardent colonizationists.

[Footnote 1:  Boone, The History of Education in Indiana, p. 237; and African Repository, vol. xxx., p. 195.]

[Footnote 2:  Ibid., p. 195.]

The later plan of most colonizationists, however, was to educate the emigrating Negroes after they settled in Liberia.  Handsome sums were given for the establishment of schools and colleges in which professorships were endowed for men educated at the expense of churches and colonization societies.[1] The first institution of consequence in this field was the Alexander High School.  To this school many of the prominent men of Liberia owed the beginning of their liberal education.  The English High School at Monrovia,