31.] [Footnote 4: _Ibid_., vol.lxx., p.

245.] The education of Negroes was facilitated among the French and Spanish by their liberal attitude toward their slaves.

Many of them were respected for their worth and given some of the privileges of freemen.

Estevanecito, an enlightened slave sent by Niza, the Spanish adventurer, to explore Arizona, was a favored servant of this class.[1] The Latin custom of miscegenation proved to be a still more important factor in the education of Negroes in the colonies.

As the French and Spanish came to America for the purpose of exploitation, leaving their wives behind, many of them, by cohabiting with and marrying colored women, gave rise to an element of mixed breeds.