[Footnote 1:  Proceedings of the American Conv., 1809, p. 16, and 1812, p. 16.]

[Footnote 2:  Wickersham, History of Ed. in Pa., p. 252.]

[Footnote 3:  Proceedings of the American Convention, etc., 1812, Report from Philadelphia.]

[Footnote 4:  Ibid., 1815, Report from Phila.]

The assistance obtained from the State, however, was not taken as a pretext for the cessation of the labors on the part of those who had borne the burden for more than a century.  The faithful friends of the colored race remained as active as ever.  In 1822 the Quakers in the Northern Liberties organized the Female Association which maintained one or more schools.[1] That same year the Union Society founded in 1810 for the support of schools and domestic manufactures for the benefit of the “African race and people of color” was conducting three schools for adults.[2] The Infant School Society of Philadelphia was also doing good work in looking after the education of small colored children.[3] In the course of time crowded conditions in the colored schools necessitated the opening of additional evening classes and the erection of larger buildings.

[Footnote 1:  Wickersham, History of Education in Pa., p. 252.]

[Footnote 2:  One of these was at the Sessions House of the Third Presbyterian Church; one at Clarkston Schoolhouse, Cherry Street; one in the Academy on Locust Street.  See Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the Colored People of Philadelphia, p. 19; and Wickersham, Education in Pa., p. 253.]

[Footnote 3:  Statistical Inquiry, etc., p. 19.]

At this time Maryland was not raising any serious objection to the instruction of slaves, and public sentiment there did not seem to interfere with the education of free persons of color.  Maryland was long noted for her favorable attitude toward her Negroes.  We have already observed how Banneker, though living in a small place, was permitted to attend school, and how Ellicott became interested in this man of genius and furnished him with books.  Other Negroes of that State were enjoying the same privilege.  The abolition delegates from Maryland reported in 1797 that several children of the Africans and other people of color were under a course of instruction, and that an academy and qualified teachers for them would be provided.[1] These Negroes were then getting light from another source.  Having more freedom in this State than in some others, the Quakers were allowed to teach colored people.

[Footnote 1:  Proceedings of the American Convention, etc., 1797, p. 16.]