Moreover, even before the policy of mental and moral improvement of the slaves could be given a trial, some colonists, anticipating the "evils of the scheme," sought to obviate them by legislation.

Such we have observed was the case in Virginia,[1] South Carolina,[2] and Georgia.[3] To control the assemblies of slaves, North Carolina,[4] Delaware,[5] and Maryland[6] early passed strict regulations for their inspection.
[Footnote 1: _Special Report of the U.S.Com.

of Ed._, 1871, p.

391.] [Footnote 2: Brevard, _Digest of the Public Statute Law of S.C._, vol.
ii., p.243.] [Footnote 3: Marbury and Crawford, _Digest of Laws of the State of Georgia_, p.

438.] [Footnote 4: _Laws of North Carolina_, vol.i., pp.