Endnotes + 

Read before the convocation of colored clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Washington, DC, 1886. ↩ + 

Bascom. ↩ + 

Bascom’s Eng. Lit. p. 253. ↩ + 

Pamphlet published by Dr. Alex. Crummell. ↩ + 

The published report of ’91 shows 26 priests for the entire country, including one not engaged in work and one a professor in a nonsectarian school, since made Dean of an Episcopal Annex to Howard University known as King Hall. ↩ + 

Five have been graduated since ’86, two in ’91, two in ’92. ↩ + 

Graduated from Scientific Course, June, 1890, the first colored woman to graduate from Cornell. ↩ + 