CHAPTER XII.
ON THE DISSECTING BOARD.
About this time the Legislature of Louisiana passed a law designed to prevent white people from teaching in schools conducted in the interest of Negroes.
A college for Negroes had been located at Cadeville for many years, presided over by a white minister from the North.

Under the operations of the law mentioned, he was forced to resign his position.
The colored people were, therefore, under the necessity of casting about for a successor.

They wrote to the president of Stowe University requesting him to recommend a man competent to take charge of the college.

The president decided that Belton was an ideal man for the place and recommended him to the proper authorities.

Belton was duly elected.
He again bade home adieu and boarded the train for Cadeville, Louisiana.