2. The earnestness, the enthusiasm and the efficiency with which the work aimed at was done, the singleness of purpose, the public spirit and the intrepidity manifested, encouraged and inspired such men as Benjamin Lundy, William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith, S. S. Jocelyn, Arthur and Lewis Tappan, William Goodell and Beriah Green to greater efforts and persistence in behalf of the disfranchised American, accomplishing at last the tremendous work of revolutionizing the public sentiment of the country and making the institution of radical reforms possible. 3. The preparatory training which the convention work gave, fitted its leaders for the broader arena of abolitionism, and it can not be regarded as a mere coincidence that the only colored men who were among the organizers of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1853, Robert Purvis and James G. Barbadoes, were both promoters and leaders in the Convention Movement. 4. The importance of industrial education in the growth and development of the Negro-American is no new doctrine in the creed of the representative colored people of the country. Before Hampton and Tuskegee reared their walls--aye, before Booker T. Washington was born, Frederick Douglass and the Colored Convention of 1853, had commissioned Mrs. Stowe to obtain funds to establish an Agriculture and Industrial College. Long before Frederick Douglass had left Maryland by the Under Ground Railroad, but for the opposition of the white people of Connecticut, and within the echo of Yale College, would have stood the first institution dedicated to our enlightenment and social regeneration. JOHN W. CROMWELL. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1 "Twenty-two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman".--AUSTIN STEWARD. 2 "Life and Times".--FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 3 Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro.--SAM'L. R. WARD. 4 The Life of Arthur Tappan.--LEWIS TAPPAN. 5 History of the Negro in America.--GEORGE W. WILLIAMS. 6 William Lloyd Garrison.--HIS SONS. 7 Anglo-African Magazine 1859. 8 The Liberator--Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 9 The North Star--Vol. 1, Vol. 3. Transcriber's Note: The word "colegiate" has been corrected to "collegiate" (page 7) and "committe" corrected to "committee" (page 16). Variations of "Hayti" and "Haiti" are presented as in the original text. In the original text, the reference note to the table on page 18 does not contain a Volume Number.