12, 13, and 31.] [Footnote 3: _Ibid._, 1797, p.

31.] [Footnote 4: _Ibid._, 1818, p.

9.] Two early efforts to carry out this policy are worthy of notice here.
These were the endeavors of Anthony Benezet and Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
Benezet was typical of those men, who, having the courage of their conviction, not only taught colored people, but gladly appropriated property to their education.

Benezet died in 1784, leaving considerable wealth to be devoted to the purpose of educating Indians and Negroes.

His will provided that as the estate on the death of his wife would not be sufficient entirely to support a school, the Overseers of the Public Schools of Philadelphia should join with a committee appointed by the Society of Friends, and other benevolent persons, in the care and maintenance of an institution such as he had planned.