None of us knows what relation the future may produce between the two races in the South, but possibly when the self-righteous shall be fewer than they are now and the teachings which have estranged the races shall become more sane, the great Anglo-Saxon race, which is dominant, and the Negro race, which is amiable, if not subservient, will adjust their differences more in accordance with the laws which must eventually prevail, and the old feeling of kindliness, which seems, under the stress of antagonism, to be dying away, will once more reassert itself. FOOTNOTES: [58] The name “driver” was unknown in Virginia, whatever it may have been in the South. And the “driver” of slave-horror novels was as purely the creature of the imagination as Cerberus, or the Chimera. [59] In Georgia, for example, as shown by the investigation of Professor Du Bois, one of the best educated and trained colored men in the South, there were, in 1860, 455,698 negroes and 591,550 whites. Of these, there were 3,500 free negroes and 462,195 slaves owned by 40,773 slave-holders, or about 10½ to each slave-holder. Of these slave-holders, 16 per cent. of all—6,713 owned 1 slave. 10 ” ” —4,353 ” 2 slaves. 8 ” ” —3,482 ” 3 ” 2,984 ” 4 ” 2,543 ” 5 ” 2,213 ” 6 ” 1,839 ” 7 ” 1,647 ” 8 ” 1,415 ” 9 ” 4,707 ” 10 or under 15 slaves. 2,523 ” 15 ” ” 20 ” 2,910 ” 20 ” ” 30 ” 1,400 ” 30 ” ” 40 ” 739 ” 40 ” ” 50 ” 729 ” 50 ” ” 70 ” 373 ” 70 ” ” 100 ” 181 ” 100 ” ” 200 ” 23 ” 200 ” ” 300 ” 7 ” 300 ” ” 500 ” 1 ” 500 ” ” 1,000 ” From this table it will be seen that 6,713, or about 16½ per cent., owned only one slave, 10½ per cent. owned only two slaves, and 50 per cent. owned five slaves or fewer, while 66 per cent. (27,191) owned under ten slaves; 1,102 owned between fifty and one hundred, and but 212 owned over one hundred, while only twenty-three owned over two hundred. [60] As to the education of the Negroes: See Report of U. S. Commissioner of Education, 1901, vol. i, p. 745, _et seq._, for a valuable paper by Prof. Kelly Miller, one of the most intelligent colored men in the country. Citing the Report of U. S. Commissioner of Education, 1868, he shows that such laws were adopted in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina, about 1830-34. While in Virginia in 1831, as in Delaware in 1863, public meetings were prohibited. These laws grew out of the Nat Turner Insurrection. V. Appendix. [61] We had three or four such young men on our plantation, and although the plantation lay within two or three miles of the roads down which Sheridan and Stoneman passed, and within twelve or fifteen miles of those along which Grant passed, these were the only negroes from our place who went off during the war. In all, four young men left us. If anyone wishes to get an insight into this phase of the negro character and at the same time pass a delightful half hour, let him read Harry Stillwell Edwards’s story, “Two Runaways.”