Patrick Snead of Savannah was sent to a private institution until he could spell quite well and then to a Sunday-school for colored children.[1] Richard M.Hancock wrote of studying in a private school in Newbern, North Carolina;[2] John S.
Leary went to one in Fayetteville eight years;[3] and W.A.

Pettiford of this State enjoyed similar advantages in Granville County during the fifties.

He then moved with his parents to Preston County where he again had the opportunity to attend a special school.[4] About 1840, J.F.Boulder was a student in a mixed school of white and colored pupils in Delaware.[5] Bishop J.M.Brown, a native of the same commonwealth, attended a private school taught by a friendly woman of the Quaker sect.[6] John A.Hunter, of Maryland, was sent to a school for white children kept by the sister of his mistress, but his second master said that Hunter should not have been allowed to study and stopped his attendance.[7] Francis L.Cardozo of Charleston, South Carolina, entered school there in 1842 and continued his studies until he was twelve years of age.[8] During the fifties J.W.Morris of the same city attended a school conducted by the then distinguished Simeon Beard.[9] In the same way T.McCants Stewart[10] and the Grimke brothers [11] were able to begin their education there prior to emancipation.
[Footnote 1: Drew, _Refugee_, p.

99.] [Footnote 2: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p.

406.] [Footnote 3: Ibid., p.