35/46 By 1819 they had collected $47.00 but had not increased this amount more than $2.62 two years later.[3] [Footnote 1: Coffin, _Reminiscences_, p. 70.] [Footnote 3: Weeks, _Southern Quakers_, p. 241.] The work done by the various workers in North Carolina did not affect the general improvement of the slaves, but thanks to the humanitarian movement, they were not entirely neglected. In 1830 the General Association of the Manumission Societies of that commonwealth complained that the laws made no provision for the moral improvement of the slaves.[1] Though learning was in a very small degree diffused among the colored people of a few sections, it was almost unknown to the slaves. |