Their untiring co-worker in furnishing these facilities, was the Most Reverend Ambrose Marechal, Archbishop of Baltimore from 1817 to 1828.[2] These schools were such an improvement over those formerly opened to Negroes that colored youths of other towns and cities thereafter came to Baltimore for higher training.[3] [Footnote 1: Drewery, _Slave Insurrections in Virginia_, p.

121.] [Footnote 2: _Special Report of the U.S.Com.

of Ed._, 1871, p.

205.] [Footnote 3: _Ibid._, p.

205.] The coming of these refugees to Baltimore had a direct bearing on the education of colored girls.