An important result of this agricultural training was that many of the slaves thus favored amassed considerable wealth by using their spare time in cultivating crops of their own.[1] [Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S.Com.

of Ed._, 1871, p.

196.] The advocates of useful education for the degraded race had more to say about training in the mechanic arts.

Such instruction, however, was not then a new thing to the blacks of the South, for they had from time immemorial been the trustworthy artisans of that section.

The aim then was to give them such education as would make them intelligent workmen and develop in them the power to plan for themselves.