His chief concern then was the cultivation of the minds in order to make amends for the drudgery to their bodies.

See Boucher, _Causes_, etc., p.

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

of Ed_., 1871, p.

363.] [Footnote 3: An influential minister of the Society of Friends and an extensive traveler through the colonies, Woolman had an opportunity to do much good in attacking the policy of those who kept their Negroes in deplorable ignorance, and in commending the good example of those who instructed their slaves in reading.