During the second quarter of the nineteenth century the advanced training of the colored people was almost prohibited by the refusals of academies and colleges to admit persons of African blood.

In consequence of these conditions, the long-put-forth efforts to found Negro colleges began to be crowned with success before the Civil War.

Institutions of the North admitted Negroes later for various reasons.

Some colleges endeavored to prepare them for service in Liberia, while others, proclaiming their conversion to the doctrine of democratic education, opened their doors to all.
The advocates of higher education, however, met with no little opposition.

The concentration in northern communities of the crude fugitives driven from the South necessitated a readjustment of things.
The training of Negroes in any manner whatever was then very unpopular in many parts of the North.