The indulgent teacher of J.Morris of North Carolina was his white father, his master.[1] W.J.White acquired his education from his mother, who was a white woman.[2] Martha Martin, a daughter of her master, a Scotch-Irishman of Georgia, was permitted to go to Cincinnati to be educated, while her sister was sent to a southern town to learn the milliner's trade.[3] Then there were cases like that of Josiah Settle's white father.

After the passage of the law forbidding free Negroes to remain in the State of Tennessee, he took his children to Hamilton, Ohio, to be educated and there married his actual wife, their colored mother.[4] [Footnote 1: This is based on an account given by his son.] [Footnote 2: _The Crisis_, vol.v., p.

119.] [Footnote 3: Drew, _Refugee_, p.

143.] [Footnote 4: Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p.

539.] The very employment of slaves in business establishments accelerated their mental development.