The rebellions in Camden in 1816 and in Charleston in 1822 were not exceptions to the rule.

He conceded that the Southampton Insurrection in Virginia in 1831 originated under the color of religion.

It was pointed out, however, that this very act itself was a proof that Negroes left to work out their own salvation, had fallen victims to "ignorant and misguided teachers" like Nat Turner.

Such undesirable leaders, thought he, would never have had the opportunity to do mischief, if the masters had taken it upon themselves to instruct their slaves.[3] He asserted that no large number of slaves well instructed in the Christian religion and taken into the churches directed by white men had ever been found guilty of taking part in servile insurrections.[4] [Footnote 1: _Ibid_., pp.

212, 274.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_., p.