16.] [Footnote 2: Wickersham, _History of Ed.

in Pa_., p.

252.] [Footnote 3: _Proceedings of the American Convention_, etc., 1812, Report from Philadelphia.] [Footnote 4: _Ibid_., 1815, Report from Phila.] The assistance obtained from the State, however, was not taken as a pretext for the cessation of the labors on the part of those who had borne the burden for more than a century.

The faithful friends of the colored race remained as active as ever.

In 1822 the Quakers in the Northern Liberties organized the Female Association which maintained one or more schools.[1] That same year the Union Society founded in 1810 for the support of schools and domestic manufactures for the benefit of the "African race and people of color" was conducting three schools for adults.[2] The Infant School Society of Philadelphia was also doing good work in looking after the education of small colored children.[3] In the course of time crowded conditions in the colored schools necessitated the opening of additional evening classes and the erection of larger buildings.
[Footnote 1: Wickersham, _History of Education in Pa._, p.