[188] Mr. Moore was an ordained Baptist minister, of Brooke County, Georgia. [189] THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY, I, p. 71. [190] Under the influence of his preaching Liele's wife was converted and baptized at Brunton Land. [191] _Ibid._, p. 336. [192] _The Baptist Annual Register_, 1790-93, p. 334. [193] _The Journal of Negro History_, I, pp. 71-72. [194] _The Journal of Negro History_, I, p. 72. [195] _The Baptist Annual Register_, 1790-1793, p. 335. [196] Benedict, _History of the Baptists_, p. 189. [197] _The Baptist Annual Register_, 1798-1801, p. 368. [198] _The Baptist Annual Register_, 1798-1801, p. 366. [199] Dow, _History of the Cosmopolite_, p. 124. [200] _The Baptist Annual Register_, 1790-1793, p. 339. [201] Dow, _Experience and Travels_, p. 125. [202] _The Baptist Annual Register_, 1790-1793, p. 340. [203] _Ibid._, 1798-1800, p. 367. [204] _The Baptist Annual Register_, 1798-1801, p. 368. _Ibid._, 1790-1793, p. 339. [205] Benedict, _History of the Baptists_, pp. 790-791. FIFTY YEARS OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY PART I[206] Howard University, in common with nearly all the larger private institutions of learning in the southern and border States devoted to the education of the Negro, was founded shortly after the Civil War.[207] These institutions with a few exceptions were originally supported by northern philanthropy, and their courses of study were determined by the zealous missionaries from the North, who successfully attempted to transplant among the freedmen the pedagogic traditions of New England. That such a procedure, so vigorously condemned on many sides when initiated but so gloriously justified in its results, could have been possible may well prove a cause of wonder to the student of education a century hence. And indeed, under ordinary circumstances, the establishment of classical colleges and schools of law, medicine and theology for a primitive people, unable to read or write, would seem the height of folly. But the circumstances were not ordinary. The situation was critical and unusual remedies were required.