In North Carolina John Chavis, a Negro, rose to such excellence as a teacher of white youth that he is pronounced in a biographical sketch, contained in a history of education in that State, published by the United States Bureau of Education, as one of the most eminent men produced by that State. Though an unmistakable Negro, as a preacher he acceptably filled many a white pulpit and was welcomed as a social guest at many a fireside. Such was the bitterness against the race growing out of Nat Turner's Insurrection, however, that even such a man fell under the ban of proscription. One of the preachers to whom Governor Floyd had reference quietly ignored the suggestion in the message of his Excellency and kept up his work. He was a Baptist preacher, William Carney, the grandfather of the famous Sergeant William H. Carney, of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. At the same time a daughter of his and a Methodist in a neighboring town "bearded the lion in his den" by actually collaring and driving out the leader of a party of white men who broke into a Negro religious meeting. [35] _The Richmond Enquirer_, Jan. 11, 1839. [36] _Ibid._, Jan. 11, 1839. [37] _Ibid._, Jan. 19, 1832. [38] _Ibid._, Jan. 24, 1832. [39] _The Richmond Enquirer_, Jan. 25, 1832. [40] _Ibid._, Jan. 26, 1832. [41] _The Richmond Enquirer_, Jan. 27, 1832. [42] _Ibid._, Nov. 18, 1831. [43] _The Journal of the House of Delegates_, 1831, p. 10. [44] _Ibid._, p. 112. [45] _Ibid._, 1831, p. 125. [46] _Ibid._, 1831, p. 131. [47] _The Richmond Enquirer_, Jan. and Feb., 1832. [48] _The Journal of the House of Delegates_, 1831, Appendix, Bill No. 7. [49] _Ibid._, Bill No. 13. [50] Hurd, _Law of Freedom and Bondage_, II, 9. [51] _The Laws of Maryland_, 1831-32, c. 281. [52] _Ibid._, c. 328. [53] See Article IV, Sec. 1. [54] Revised Code of Maryland, Chap. 52 and 237.7 [55] _The Laws of Tenn._, 1831, Chaps. 102 and 103. [56] Cobb's _Digest of the Laws of Georgia_, 1005. [57] _Revised Statutes of North Carolina_, c. 109 and 111. [58] Hurd, _Law of Freedom and Bondage_, II, 146. [59] _Ibid._, II, 162. [60] _Laws of Louisiana_, 1830, p. 90, Sec. 1. [61] _Annual Laws of Alabama_, 1832, p. 12. DOCUMENTS The publication of the list of names of Negroes who served in some of the Reconstruction conventions and legislatures elicited a number of comments which furnish desirable information. It is earnestly hoped that any one in a position to supply other missing information will follow the example of our friends whose correspondence we give below. February 24th, 1920. MR. CARTER G. WOODSON, 1216 You St., N.W., Washington, D.C. _Sir_: