See Torrey's _Portraiture of Domestic Slavery_, p.

21.] [Footnote 2: Sidney, _An Oration Commemorative of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the United States_, p.

5; and Adams, _Anti-slavery_, etc., pp.

40, 43, 65, and 66.] Yet in the same proportion that antislavery men convinced masters of the wisdom of the policy of gradual emancipation, they increased their own burden of providing extra facilities of education, for liberated Negroes generally made their way from the South to urban communities of the Northern and Middle States.

The friends of the colored people, however, met this exigency by establishing additional schools and repeatedly entreating these migrating freedmen to avail themselves of their opportunities.