142.] [Footnote 6: _Proceedings of the American Convention_, etc., 1820.] [Footnote 7: Andrews, _History of the New York African Free Schools_, p.

20.] The outlook for the education of Negroes in New Jersey was unusually bright.

Carrying out the recommendations of the Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting in 1777, the Quakers of Salem raised funds for the education of the blacks, secured books, and placed the colored children of the community at school.

The delegates sent from that State, to the Convention of the Abolition Societies in 1801, reported that there had been schools in Burlington, Salem, and Trenton for the education of the Negro race, but that they had been closed.[1] It seemed that not much attention had been given to this work there, but that the interest was increasing.

These delegates stated that they did not then know of any schools among them exclusively for Negroes.