67.] [Footnote 4: Baird, _Collections_, etc., pp.

816, 817.] Despite the fact that southern Methodists and Presbyterians generally ceased to have much anti-slavery ardor, there continued still in the western slave States and in the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina, a goodly number of these churchmen, who suffered no diminution of interest in the enlightenment of Negroes.

In the States of Kentucky and Tennessee friends of the race were often left free to instruct them as they wished.

Many of the people who settled those States came from the Scotch-Irish stock of the Appalachian Mountains, where early in the nineteenth century the blacks were in some cases treated as equals of the whites.[1] [Footnote 2: _Fourth Annual Report of the American Antislavery Society_, New York, 1837, P.31; _The New England Antislavery Almanac_, 1841, p.

31; and _The African Repository_, vol.xxxii., p.
16.] The Quakers, and many Catholics, however, were as effective as the mountaineers in elevating Negroes.