Endnotes

  1. Read before the convocation of colored clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Washington, DC, 1886.

  2. Bascom.

  3. Bascom’s Eng. Lit. p. 253.

  4. Pamphlet published by Dr. Alex. Crummell.

  5. The published report of ’91 shows 26 priests for the entire country, including one not engaged in work and one a professor in a nonsectarian school, since made Dean of an Episcopal Annex to Howard University known as King Hall.

  6. Five have been graduated since ’86, two in ’91, two in ’92.

  7. Graduated from Scientific Course, June, 1890, the first colored woman to graduate from Cornell.