Pamphlets, hymn books, and catechisms especially adapted to the work were written by churchmen, and placed in the hands of discreet missionaries acceptable to the slaveholders.

Among other publications of this kind were Dr.Capers's Short Catechism for the Use of Colored Members on _Trial in the Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina; A Catechism to be Used by Teachers in the Religious Instruction of Persons of Color in the Episcopal Church of South Carolina_; Dr.Palmer's _Cathechism_; Rev.John Mine's _Catechism_; and C.C.

Jones's _Catechism of Scripture, Doctrine and Practice Designed for the Original Instruction of Colored People._ Bishop Meade was once engaged in collecting such literature addressed particularly to slaves in their stations.

These extracts were to be read to them on proper occasions by any member of the family.[1] [Footnote 1: Meade, _Sermons of Rev.Thomas Bacon_, p.

2.] Yet on the whole it can be safely stated that there were few societies formed in the South to give the Negroes religious and moral instruction.