CHAPTER VI.
A YOUNG REBEL.
In the city of Nashville, Tennessee, there is a far famed institution of learning called Stowe University, in honor of Mrs.Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This institution was one of the many scores of its kind, established in the South by Northern philanthropy, for the higher education of the Negro.

Though called a university, it was scarcely more than a normal school with a college department attached.
It was situated just on the outskirts of the city, on a beautiful ten-acre plot of ground.

The buildings were five in number, consisting of a dormitory for young men, two for young ladies, a building for recitations, and another, called the teachers' mansion; for the teachers resided there.

These buildings were very handsome, and were so arranged upon the level campus as to present a very attractive sight.
With the money which had been so generously given him by Mr.King, Belton entered this school.

That was a proud day in his life when he stepped out of the carriage and opened the University gate, feeling that he, a Negro, was privileged to enter college.