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The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865

Note 30 — Chapter IV · Anti-slavery Societies

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Goodspeed, 802. The trustees consisted of General Lafayette, William McClure, Robert Owen, Camille Wright, Cadwallader, D. Flanary, and James Richardson, who, together with their successors were to hold these lands in perpetual trust for the negro race, and were subject to the following limitations:

(1) A school for colored children was always to be maintained.

(2) All slaves emancipated from the society were to be sent out of the United States.

(3) The Trustees were never to let their number fall below five, three of whom should constitute a quorum.

(4) Coadjutors, with unanimous consent of trustees, might be appointed, if they had lived six months on the lands of Nashoba.

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