Liberia, education of Negroes for; education of Negroes in Liberia College, founded Liberty County, Georgia, instruction of Negroes in Liverpool, Moses, one of the founders of the first colored school in the District of Columbia Livingston, W., teacher in Baltimore Locke, John, influence of Lockhart, Daniel J., instructed by white boys London, Bishop of, formal declarations of, abrogating the law that a Christian could not be held a slave London, Canada, private school; mission school Longworth, Nicholas, built a school-house for Negroes Louisiana, education of Negroes in; hostile legislation of; Bishop Polk of, on instruction of Negroes Louisville, Kentucky, colored schools of L'Ouverture, Toussaint, influence of Lowell, Massachusetts, colored schools of; disestablished Lowry, Rev. Samuel, taught by Rev. Talbot of Franklin College Lowth, Bishop, interested in the uplift of the heathen Lucas, Eliza, teacher of slaves Lundy, Benjamin, helped Negroes on free soil Lunenburg County, Virginia, colored congregation of Madison, James, on the education of Negroes; letter of Maine, separate school of Malone, Rev. J.W., educated in Indiana Malvin, John, organized schools in Ohio cities Mangum, P.H., and W.P., pupils of John Chavis, a colored teacher Manly, Gov. Charles, of North Carolina, taught by John Chavis Mann, Lydia, aided Myrtilla Miner, Manual Labor College, demand for, Manumission, effect of the laws of, Martin, Martha, sent to Cincinnati to be educated, sister sent to a southern town to learn a trade, Maréchal, Rev. Ambrose, helped to maintain colored schools, Maryland, Abolition Society of, to establish an academy for Negroes, favorable conditions, public opinion against the education of Negroes, law of, against colored mechanics, Maryville Theological Seminary, students of, interested in the uplift of Negroes, Mason, Joseph T. and Thomas H., teachers in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, schools of, struggles for democratic education, disestablishment of separate schools, Mather, Cotton, on the instruction of Negroes, resolutions of, Matlock, White, interest of, in Negroes, Maule, Ebenezer, helped to found a colored school in Virginia, May, Rev. Samuel, defender of Prudence Crandall, McCoy, Benjamin, teacher in the District of Columbia, McDonogh, John, had educated slaves, McIntosh County, Georgia, religious instruction of Negroes, McLeod, Dr., criticized the inhumanity of men to Negroes, Meade, Bishop William, interested in the elevation of Negroes, work of, in Virginia, followed Bacon's policy, collected literature on the instruction of Negroes, Means, supported Myrtilla Miner, Mechanics, opposed colored artisans, Medical School of Harvard University open to colored students, Medical School of the University of New York admitted colored students, Memorial to Legislature of North Carolina, the education of slaves urged, Methodist preacher in South Carolina, work of, stopped by the people, Methodists, enlightened Negroes, change in attitude of, founded Wilberforce, Michigan, Negroes admitted to schools of, Middleton, Charles, teacher in the District of Columbia, Miles, Mary E.. assistant of Gilmore in Cincinnati, Milton, influence of, Miner, Myrtilla, teacher in the District of Columbia, founded a school, Minor Society of Charleston established a school for Negroes, Minority report of Boston School Committee opposed segregation of colored pupils, Minutes of Methodist Episcopal Conference, resolution on the instruction of Negroes Minutes of the Meetings of Friends, action taken to elevate the colored people Missionaries, English, interested in uplift of Negroes French Spanish Missouri, prohibitive legislation of Mitchell, John G., student in Indiana Mitchell, S.T., began his education in Indiana Mobile, provision for the education of the Negroes Montgomery, I.T., educated under the direction of his master Moore, Edward W., teacher, and author of an arithmetic Moore, Helen, helped Myrtilla Miner Moorland, Dr. J.E., an uncle of, studied medicine Moravian Brethren, instructed colored people Morris, Dr. E. C, instructed by his father Morris, J., taught by his white father Morris, J.W., student in Charleston Morris, Robert, appointed magistrate Murray, John, interested in the New York African Free Schools Nantucket, Massachusetts, colored schools of Neau, Elias, founded a colored school in New York City Negroes, learning to read and write free education of learning in spite of opposition instructing white persons reduced to heathenism Neill, Rev. Hugh, missionary teacher of Negroes in Pennsylvania Nell, Wm., author New Bedford, Massachusetts, colored schools of disestablished Newbern, North Carolina, effects of insurrection of New Castle, Presbytery of, established Ashmun Institute New England, schools in Anti-Slavery Society of planned to establish a manual labor college sent colored students to Canaan, New Hampshire Newhall, Isabella, excluded a colored boy from school New Hampshire, academy of, broken up schools of, apparently free to all New Haven, separate schools of colored Manual Labor College not wanted interested in the education of persons for Africa and Haiti New Jersey, Quakers of, endeavored to elevate colored people law of, to teach slaves Negroes of, in public schools Presbyterians of, interested in Negroes separate schools caste in schools abolished New Orleans, education of the Negroes of Newport, Rhode Island, separate schools New York, Quakers of, taught Negroes Presbyterians of, interested in Negroes, work of Anti-Slavery Society of, separate schools of, schools opened to all, New York Central College, favorable to Negroes, New York City, African Free Schools, transfer to Public School Society, transfer to Board of Education, society of free people of color of, organized a school, Newspapers, colored, gave evidence of intellectual progress, (see note 1,)
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson

Still this eminently childish proceeding leads one to consider whether the most savage mind does not contain the germ of writing.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

Among his intimates and admirers were no fewer than eight cardinals, Prince Leopold of Tuscany, the Duke of Bouillon, Isabella of Austria, the Infanta Maria of Savoy and the Duke of Brunswick, who, during a visit to various courts of Europe in 1649, purposely went to Assisi to see him, and was there converted from the Lutheran heresy by the spectacle of one of his flights.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas