252.] [Footnote 2: One of these was at the Sessions House of the Third Presbyterian Church; one at Clarkston Schoolhouse, Cherry Street; one in the Academy on Locust Street.

See _Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the Colored People of Philadelphia_, p.

19; and Wickersham, _Education in Pa._, p.

253.] [Footnote 3: _Statistical Inquiry_, etc., p.

19.] At this time Maryland was not raising any serious objection to the instruction of slaves, and public sentiment there did not seem to interfere with the education of free persons of color.