In 1815 the Quakers were still exhorting their members to establish schools for the literary and religious instruction of Negroes.[2] The following year a school for Negroes was opened for two days in a week.[3] So successful was the work done by the Quakers during this period that they could report in 1817 that most colored minors in the Western Quarter had been "put in a way to get a portion of school learning."[4] In 1819 some of them could spell and a few could write.

The plan of these workers was to extend the instruction until males could "read, write, and cipher," and until the females could "read and write."[5] [Footnote 1: Weeks, _Southern Quakers_, p.

231; Levi Coffin, _Reminiscences_, pp.

69-71; Bassett, _Slavery in North Carolina_, p.
66.] [Footnote 2: Weeks, _Southern Quakers_, p.

232.] [Footnote 3: Thwaites, _Early Travels_, vol.ii., p.