214, 215, 216, 217, 218 _et seq._] [Footnote 2: _Ibid._, p.

214.] [Footnote 3: O'Connor, Myrtilla Miner, p.

80.] The Negroes of Baltimore were almost as self-educating as those of the District of Columbia.

The coming of the refugees and French Fathers from Santo Domingo to Baltimore to escape the revolution[1] marked an epoch in the intellectual progress of the colored people of that city.
Thereafter their intellectual class had access to an increasing black population, anxious to be enlightened.

Given this better working basis, they secured from the ranks of the Catholics additional catechists and teachers to give a larger number of illiterates the fundamentals of education.