21.] [Footnote 2: Needles, _An Historical Memoir_, etc., p.

32.] Another Negro of this type was James Durham, a native slave of the city of Philadelphia.

Durham was purchased by Dr.Dove, a physician in New Orleans, who, seeing the divine spark in the slave, gave him a chance for mental development.

It was fortunate that he was thrown upon his own resources in this environment, where the miscegenation of the races since the early French settlement, had given rise to a thrifty and progressive class of mixed breeds, many of whom at that time had the privileges and immunities of freemen.

Durham was not long in acquiring a rudimentary education, and soon learned several modern languages, speaking English, French, and Spanish fluently.