363.] [Footnote 2: _Special Report of the U.S.Com.

of Ed_., 1871, p.

363.] On account of these appeals made during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a larger number of slaves of the English colonies were thereafter treated as human beings capable of mental, moral, and spiritual development.

Some masters began to provide for the improvement of these unfortunates, not because they loved them, but because instruction would make them more useful to the community.

A much more effective policy of Negro education was brought forward in 1741 by Bishop Secker.[1] He suggested the employment of young Negroes prudently chosen to teach their countrymen.