33/43 144.] [Footnote 2: Bremer, _Homes of the New World_, vol.ii., pp. 488-491.] [Footnote 3: _The Richmond Enquirer_, July, 1859; and _Afr. 255.] Statistics of this period show that the proportionately largest number of Negroes who learned in spite of opposition were found among the Scotch-Irish of Kentucky and Tennessee. Possessing few slaves, and having no permanent attachment to the institution, those mountaineers did not yield to the reactionaries who were determined to keep the Negroes in heathendom. Kentucky and Tennessee did not expressly forbid the education of the colored people.[1] Conditions were probably better in Kentucky than in Tennessee. |