In most parts of the State, and most commonly in the northern division, however, they were incorporated with the white children in the various small schools scattered over the State.[2] There was then in the city of Burlington a free school for the education of poor children supported by the profits of an estate left for that particular purpose, and made equally accessible to the children of both races.

Conditions were just as favorable in Gloucester.

An account from its antislavery society shows that the local friends of the indigent had funds of about one thousand pounds established for schooling poor children, white and black, without distinction.

Many of the black children, who were placed by their masters under the care of white instructors, received as good moral and school education as the lower class of whites.[3] Later reports from this State show the same tendency toward democratic education.
[Footnote 1: _Proceedings of the American Convention_, etc., 1801, p.
12.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid._, p.

12, and Quaker Pamphlet, p.