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178, December 1850.

40. Morning Herald, January 5, 1846; Cincinnati Journal, January 17, 1839; Philan-

thropist, October 27, 1841.

41. Quoted in Cincinnati Journal, January 17, 1839.

42. Ibid.

43. Coffin, Reminiscences, 352, 362, 396; Morning Herald, January 5, 1846.

44. The Address and Reply on the Presentation of a Testimonial to S. P. Chase, By

the Colored People of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, 1845), 33.

45. Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, Proceedings . . . 1835, 33; Philanthropist, July 21,

1840; Cist, Cincinnati in 1841: Its Early Annals and Future Prospects (Cincinnati,

1841), 96-97; Cist; Cincinnati in 1851, 80-81.

46. Birney to Tappan, July 4, 1839, Birney Letters, I, 494-495; Philanthropist, July

21, 1840; Woodson, "Negroes of Cincinnati," 20.

47. Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, Report on the Second Anniversary . . . 1837 (Cin-

cinnati, 1837), 63-64.

48. Morning Herald, November 19, 1846; Barber, "Report."

49. Morning Herald, July 25, 1844, November 23, 1846; Cincinnati Daily Times,

July 9, 1841; Cincinnati Daily Dispatch, October 5, 1848; Commercial, September 24,

29, 1849.

50. Ibid., July 12-August 30, 1849.

51. Morning Herald, January 22, 1845.

52. Ibid., August 16, 1844 (quoting Daily Inquirer), January 22, 1845; Cist, Cincinnati

in 1851, 151; Williams, History of the Negro, II, 143-144.

53. Morning Herald, January 22, 23, 1845, July 15, 17, 1846, January 5, 6, 1847,

January 7, 1848; Daily Dispatch, December 27, 1848, March 24, 1849.

54. Commercial, April 1, June 13, 1845, March 21, 1846, August 18, September 16,

1848, September 1, 1849; Daily Times, August 17, 20, 27, 1841; Daily Dispatch, July

20, 1848; Morning Herald, May 10, 11, 12, 14, 1848.

55. Commercial, November 20, 1848; Daily Atlas, June 16, 19, 1845; see also Stanley

M. Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (Chicago,

1959) for a controversial discussion of the "Sambo" personality.

56. Drake's Letters, 33-34.

57. Commercial, July 10, 1845.

58. William D. Howells, A Boy's Town (New York, 1890), 229-230.

RISE AND DECLINE OF PRIVATE ACADEMIES

IN ALBANY, OHIO

1. For brief statements on academies in Ohio, see Francis P. Weisenburger, The

Passing of the Frontier, 1825-1850 (Carl Wittke, ed., The History of the State of Ohio,

III, Columbus, 1941), 173, and Eugene H. Roseboom, The Civil War Era, 1850-1873

(Carl Wittke, ed., The History of the State of Ohio, IV, Columbus, 1944), 182.

2. Albany's population in 1860 was 541, U. S. Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census

of the United States: 1860. Population Schedules, Athens County (National Archives

Mircofilm), 141-154. More information on Albany, Ohio, can be found in History

of the Hocking Valley (Chicago, 1883), 602-625 and Ivan M. Tribe, "The Development

of a Rural Community: Albany, Ohio, 1840-1880" (unpublished M. A. thesis, Ohio

University, 1967).

3. William E. Peters, Athens County, Ohio (Athens, Ohio, 1947), 56-64.

4. Thomas N. Hoover, The History of Ohio University (Athens, Ohio, 1954), 25-26,

92-93.

5. Fletcher Stanton Coultrap, "Education in Athens County," Centennial Atlas of

Athens County (Athens, Ohio, 1905), 119; Arena, 1959 (Athens, Ohio, 1959), 4-7. The

Akron Law made it possible for municipalities having a population in excess of 200

to organize their own school districts and to set themselves apart from the township

district schools.

6. Census, Seventh Census of the United States: 1850. Population Schedules, Athens

County (National Archives Microfilm), 181; General Catalogue of Oberlin College,

1833-1908 (Oberlin, Ohio, 1909), 592.

7. History of the Hocking Valley, 608; Rebecca Stanley, "Albany Seventy-Five Years

Ago," Albany Messenger, May, 1924, 7.