Yet statistics show that although the education of Negroes was not penalized, it was in many places made impossible by public sentiment.

So was it in the State of Maryland, which did not expressly forbid the instruction of anyone.
[Footnote 1: _Laws of the Territory of Missouri_, p.

498.] [Footnote 2: _Laws of the State of Missouri_, 1847, pp.

103 and 104.] [Footnote 3: _Public Acts passed at the First Session of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee_, p.

145, chap.