491; Burke, _Reminiscences of Georgia_, p.
85.] [Footnote 3: Kemble, _Journal_, etc., p.

34.] [Footnote 4: _Special Report of the U.S.Com.

of Ed._, 1871, p.

340.] The city Negroes of Virginia continued to maintain schools despite the fact that the fear of servile insurrection caused the State to exercise due vigilance in the execution of the laws.

The father of Richard De Baptiste of Fredericksburg made his own residence a school with his children and a few of those of his relatives as pupils.
The work was begun by a Negro and continued by an educated Scotch-Irishman, who had followed the profession of teaching in his native land.