43.] [Footnote 2: _Proceedings of the American Conv_., 1802, p.

18.] [Footnote 3: _Ibid_., 1803, p.

13.] [Footnote 4: _Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the Colored People of Philadelphia_, p.

19.] [Footnote 5: _Ibid_., p.

20.] After the first decade of the nineteenth century the movement for the uplift of the Negroes around Philadelphia was checked a little by the migration to that city of many freedmen who had been lately liberated.
The majority of them did not "exhibit that industry, economy, and temperance" which were "expected by many and wished by all."[1] Not deterred, however, by this seemingly discouraging development, the friends of the race toiled on as before.