658.] [Footnote 2: Laws of South Carolina, 1834.] North Carolina was among the last States to take such drastic measures for the protection of the white race.

In this commonwealth the whites and blacks had lived on liberal terms.

Negroes had up to this time enjoyed the right of suffrage there.

Some attended schools open to both races.

A few even taught white children.[1] [Footnote 1: Bassett, _Slavery in North Carolina_, p.