61.] [Footnote 3: Quaker Pamphlet, p.

31.] What the other sects did for the enlightenment of Negroes during this period, was not of much importance.

As the Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists did not proselyte extensively in this country prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, these denominations had little to do with Negro education before the liberalism and spirit of toleration, developed during the revolutionary era, made it possible for these sects to reach the people.

The Methodists, however, confined at first largely to the South, where most of the slaves were found, had to take up this problem earlier.

Something looking like an attempt to elevate the Negroes came from Wesley's contemporary, George Whitefield,[1] who, strange to say, was regarded by the Negro race as its enemy for having favored the introduction of slavery.