415 and 511.] [Footnote 2: McLeod, _Negro Slavery_, p.

16.] [Footnote 3: Rice, Speech in the Constitutional Convention of Kentucky, p.

5.] During this period religion as a factor in the educational progress of the Negroes was not eliminated.

In fact, representative churchmen of the various sects still took the lead in advocating the enlightenment of the colored people.

These protagonists, however, ceased to claim this boon merely as a divine right and demanded it as a social privilege.