215.] [Footnote 2: Weeks, _Southern Quakers_, p.

216.] [Footnote 3: _Ibid_., p.

216.] Such philanthropy, however, did not become general in Virginia.

The progress of Negro education there was decidedly checked by the rapid development of discontent among Negroes ambitious to emulate the example of Toussaint L'Ouverture.

During the first quarter of the nineteenth century that commonwealth tolerated much less enlightenment of the colored people than the benevolent element allowed them in the other border States.