EDUCATION AS A RIGHT OF MAN In addition to the mere diffusion of knowledge as a means to teach religion there was a need of another factor to make the education of the Negroes thorough.

This required force was supplied by the response of the colonists to the nascent social doctrine of the eighteenth century.

During the French and Indian War there were set to work certain forces which hastened the social and political upheaval called the American Revolution.

"Bigoted saints" of the more highly favored sects condescended to grant the rising denominations toleration, the aristocratic elements of colonial society deigned to look more favorably upon those of lower estate, and a large number of leaders began to think that the Negro should be educated and freed.

To acquaint themselves with the claims of the underman Americans thereafter prosecuted more seriously the study of Coke, Milton, Locke, and Blackstone.