Four years later there appeared an "African Free School" with an attendance of from 150 to 175 every Sunday.[3] [Footnote 1: _Ibid._, p.

196.] [Footnote 2: Adams, _Anti-slavery_, etc., p.

14.] [Footnote 3: Adams, _Anti-Slavery_, etc., pp.

14 and 15.] By 1830 the Negroes of Baltimore had several special schools of their own.[1] In 1835 there was behind the African Methodist Church in Sharp Street a school of seventy pupils in charge of William Watkins.[2] W.
Livingston, an ordained clergyman of the Episcopal Church, had then a colored school of eighty pupils in the African Church at the corner of Saratoga and Ninth Streets.[3] A third school of this kind was kept by John Fortie at the Methodist Bethel Church in Fish Street.

Five or six other schools of some consequence were maintained by free women of color, who owed their education to the Convent of the Oblate Sisters of Providence.[4] Observing these conditions, an interested person thought that much more would have been accomplished in that community, if the friends of the colored people had been able to find workers acceptable to the masters and at the same time competent to teach the slaves.[5] Yet another observer felt that the Negroes of Baltimore had more opportunities than they embraced.[6] [Footnote 1: Buckingham, _America, Historical_, etc., vol.i., p.
438.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid._, p.