9.] [Footnote 3: _Special Report U.S.Com.

of Ed._, 1871, p.

362.] The results obtained in the English colonies during the early period show that the agitation for the enlightenment of the Negroes spread not only wherever these unfortunates were found, but claimed the attention of the benevolent far away.

Bishop Wilson of Sodor and Man, active in the cause during the first half of the eighteenth century, availed himself of the opportunity to aid those missionaries who were laboring in the colonies for the instruction of the Indians and Negroes.

In 1740 he published a pamphlet written in 1699 on the _Principles and Duties of Christianity in their Direct Bearing on the Uplift of the Heathen_.