74.] [Footnote 5: John S.Bassett, Professor of History at Trinity College, North Carolina, learned from a source of great respectability that Chavis not only taught the children of these distinguished families, but "was received as an equal socially and asked to table by the most respectable people of the neighborhood." See Bassett, _Slavery in North Carolina_, p.

75.] We have no evidence of any such favorable conditions in South Carolina.

There was not much public education of the Negroes of that State even during the revolutionary epoch.

Regarding education as a matter of concern to persons immediately interested South Carolinians had long since learned to depend on private instruction for the training of their youth.

Colored schools were not thought of outside of Charleston.