Charles Dabney, another traveler through this State in 1837, observed that the slaves of this commonwealth were taught to read and believed that they were about as well off as they would have been had they been free.

See Dabney, _Journal of a Tour through the U.S.and Canada_, p.

185.] [Footnote 2: Abdy, _Journal of a Tour_, etc., 1833-1834, pp.

346-348.] It was the desire to train up white men to carry on the work of their liberal fathers that led John G.Fee and his colaborers to establish Berea College in Kentucky.

In the charter of this institution was incorporated the declaration that "God has made of one blood all nations that dwell upon the face of the earth." No Negroes were admitted to this institution before the Civil War, but they came in soon thereafter, some being accepted while returning home wearing their uniforms.[1] The State has since prohibited the co-education of the two races.
[Footnote 1: Catalogue of Berea College, 1896-1897.] The centers of this interest in the mountains of Tennessee were Maryville and Knoxville.