The mayor closed a Sunday-school, on the ground that in it slaves were taught to read.

The teacher, a New England woman, denied the charge, and claimed that only free children had been taught, while slaves were orally instructed to obey their masters, as good Presbyterians, who hoped to escape the worm that never dies.

Her defense failed, but seemed to establish the right of free colored people to a knowledge of the alphabet, but there was no school for them, and I thought to establish one.
Jerry Wade, the Gault House barber, was a mulatto, who had bought himself and family, and acquired considerable real estate.

In the back of one of his houses, lived his son with a wife and little daughter.

We rented the front, and mother sent me furniture.