Yet although South Carolina prohibited the education of the slaves in 1740[1] and seemingly that of other Negroes in 1800,[2] these measures were not considered a direct attack on the instruction of free persons of color.

Furthermore, the law in regard to the teaching of the blacks was ignored by sympathetic masters.

Colored persons serving in families and attending traveling men shared with white children the advantage of being taught at home.

Free persons of color remaining accessible to teachers and missionaries interested in the propagation of the gospel among the poor still had the opportunity to make intellectual advancement.[3] [Footnote 1: Brevard, _Digest of the Public Statute Law of South Carolina_, vol.ii., p.

243.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_., p.