ABSTRACT
The teachers in these institutions came not to keep the Negroes in their places, but to raise them out of the places of defilement where slavery had wallowed them. The colleges they founded were social settlements; homes where the best of the sons of the freedmen came in close and sympathetic touch with the best traditions of New England
-W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
No denominational schools surpass those of this group [AMA} in educational standards or administrative efficiency. It is probable that no church board has equaled this association in the thoroughness of its self-examination.
