Colored gentlemen were not allowed to become members of literary associations, nor subscribers to the town libraries.

Social intercourse was utterly interdicted.

To visit the houses of such men as we have already mentioned in a previous chapter, and especially to sit down at their tables, would have been a loss of caste; although the gentry were at the same time living with colored concubines.

But most of all did this wicked prejudice delight to display itself in the churches.

Originally, we believe, the despised color was confined to the galleries, afterwards it was admitted to the seats under the galleries, and ultimately it was allowed to extend to the body pews below the cross aisle.