70.] White persons deeply interested in Negroes taught them regardless of public opinion and the law.

Dr.Alexander T.Augusta of Virginia learned to read while serving white men as a barber.[1] A prominent white man of Memphis taught Mrs.Mary Church Terrell's mother French and English.

The father of Judge R.H.Terrell was well-grounded in reading by his overseer during the absence of his master from Virginia.[2] A fugitive slave from Essex County of the same State was not allowed to go to school publicly, but had an opportunity to learn from white persons privately.[3] The master of Charles Henry Green, a slave of Delaware, denied him all instruction, but he was permitted to study among the people to whom he was hired.[4] M.W.Taylor of Kentucky studied under attorneys J.B.Kinkaid and John W.Barr, whom he served as messenger.[5] Ignoring his master's orders against frequenting a night school, Henry Morehead of Louisville learned to spell and read sufficiently well to cause his owner to have the school unceremoniously closed.[6] [Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S.Com.

of Ed._, 1871, p.

258.] [Footnote 2: This is based on the statements of Judge and Mrs.
Terrell.] [Footnote 3: Drew, _Refugee_, p.