157 and 164.] In 1764 the Charleston school was closed for reasons which it is difficult to determine.

From one source we learn that one of the teachers died, and the other having turned out profligate, no instructors could be found to continue the work.

It does not seem that the sentiment against the education of free Negroes had by that time become sufficiently strong to cause the school to be discontinued.[1] It is evident, however, that with the assistance of influential persons of different communities the instruction of slaves continued in that colony.

Writing about the middle of the eighteenth century, Eliza Lucas, a lady of South Carolina, who afterward married Justice Pinckney, mentions a parcel of little Negroes whom she had undertaken to teach to read.[2] [Footnote 1: _An Account of the Endeavors Used by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts_, p.

15.] [Footnote 2: Bourne, _Spain in America_, p.