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While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
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for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
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1: "Moore, Anti-Slavery", p.
79; and ", 1871, p. 376; Weeks, Southern Quakers, pp. 215,
216, 231, 230, 242. 2: "The Southern Workman", xxvii, p. 161. 3: Rhodes, "History of the United States", chap. i,
p. 6; Bancroft, "History of the United States", chap. ii, p.
401; and Locke, Anti-Slavery, p. 32. 4: A Brief Statement of the Rise and
Progress of the Testimony of the Quakers, passim; Woodson,
"The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861", p. 43. 5: Woodson, "The Education of the Negro
Prior to 1861", p. 44; and "Locke, Anti-Slavery", p. 32. 6: "The Southern Workman", xxxvii, pp.
158-169. 7: "Turner, The Negro in Pennsylvania", pp.
144, 145, 151, 155. 8: "Southern Workman", xxxvii, p. 157. 9: "Levi Coffin, Reminiscences", chaps, i
and ii. 10: "Southern Workman", xxxvii, pp.
161-163. 11: "Coffin, Reminiscences", p. 109; and
Howe's Historical Collections, p. 356. 12: "Southern Workman", xxxvii, pp. 162,
163. 13: Levi Coffin, "Reminiscences", pp.
108-111. 14: Siebert, "The Underground Railroad", p.
249. 15: Langston, "From the Virginia Plantation
to the National Capitol", p. 35. 16: "Howe, Historical Collections", p. 465. 17: "History of Brown County", Ohio, p.
313. 18: Wattles said: he purchased for himself 190
acres of land, to establish a manual labor school for
colored boys. He had maintained a school on it, at his own
expense, till the eleventh of November, 1842. While in
Philadelphia the winter before, he became acquainted with
the trustees of the late Samuel Emlen, a Friend of New
Jersey. He left by his will $20,000 for the "support and
education in school learning and the mechanic arts and
agriculture, boys, of African and Indian descent, whose
parents would give them up to the school. They united their
means and purchased Wattles farm, and appointed him the
superintendent of the establishment, which they called the
Emlen Institute."See Howe's Historical Collections, p.
356. 19: "Howe's Historical Collections", p.
355. 20: "Manuscripts in the possession of J.E.
Moorland". 21: "The African Repository", xxii, pp.
322, 333. 22: "Simmons, Men of Mark", p. 723. 23: "Southern Workman", xxxvii, p. 158. 24: "The Journal of Negro History", I, pp.
23-33. 25: "Ibid"., I, p. 26. 26: "The African Repository", passim. 27: Although constituting a majority of the
population even before the Civil War the Negroes of this
township did not get recognition in the local government
until 1875 when John Allen, a Negro, was elected township
treasurer. From that time until about 1890 the Negroes
always shared the honors of office with their white citizens
and since that time they have usually had entire control of
the local government in that township, holding such offices
as supervisor, clerk, treasurer, road commissioner, and
school director. Their record has been that of efficiency.
Boss rule among them is not known. The best man for an
office is generally sought; for this is a community of
independent farmers. In 1907 one hundred and eleven
different farmers in this community had holdings of 10,439
acres. Their township usually has very few delinquent
taxpayers and it promptly makes its returns to the county.
See the "Southern Workman", xxxvii, pp. 486-489. 28: Davidson and Stowe, "A Complete History
of Illinois", pp. 321, 322; and Washburn, "Edward Coles",
pp. 44 and 53. 29: The Negro population of this town so
rapidly increased after the war that it has become a Negro
town and unfortunately a bad one. Much improvement has been
made in recent years. See "Southern Workman", xxxvii, pp.
489-494. 30: Still, "Underground Railroad", passim;
Siebert, "Underground Railroad", pp. 34, 35, 40, 42, 43, 48,
56, 59, 62, 64, 70, 145, 147; Drew, "Refugee", pp. 72, 97,
114, 152, 335 and 373. 31: "The Journal of Negro History", I, pp.
132-162. 32: "Ibid"., I, 138. 33: Olmsted, "Back Country", p. 134. 34: In the Appalachian mountains, however,
the settlers were loath to follow the fortunes of the ardent
pro-slavery element. Actual abolition, for example, was
never popular in western Virginia, but the love of the
people of that section for freedom kept them estranged from
the slaveholding districts of the State, which by 1850 had
completely committed themselves to the pro-slavery
propaganda. In the Convention of 1829-30 Upshur said there
existed in a great portion of the West (of Virginia) a
rooted antipathy to the slave. John Randolph was alarmed at
the fanatical spirit on the subject of slavery, which was
growing in Virginia, See the "Journal of Negro History", I,
p. 142. 35: Adams, "Neglected Period of
Anti-Slavery". 36: "The Journal of Negro History", I, pp.
132-160. 37: Siebert, "Underground Railroad", p.
166. 38: Adams, "Neglected Period of
Anti-Slavery". 39: Siebert, "Underground Railroad", chaps.
v and vi. 40: "An Address to the People of North
Carolina on the Evils of Slavery." 41: Washington, "Story of the Negro", I,
chaps. xii, xiii and xiv. 42: "Father Henson's Story of his own Life", p.
209; Coffin, "Reminiscences", pp. 247-256; Howe, "The
Refugees from Slavery", p. 77; Haviland, "A Woman's
Work", pp. 192, 193, 196. 43: Woodson, "The Education of the Negro
Prior to 1861", pp. 236-240. 44: "The United States Censuses of 1850 and
1860."
