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The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861

CHAPTER VIII
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157.] The most striking example of this class of workers was the Rev.C.C.
Jones, a minister of the Presbyterian Church.

Educated at Princeton with men actually interested in the cause of the Negroes, and located in Georgia where he could study the situation as it was, Jones became not a theorist but a worker.

He did not share the discussion of the question as to how to get rid of slavery.

Accepting the institution as a fact, he endeavored to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortunates by the spiritual cultivation of their minds.

He aimed, too, not to take into his scheme the solution of the whole problem but to appeal to a special class of slaves, those of the plantations who were left in the depths of ignorance as to the benefits of right living.


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