At William and Mary College not less than seventy Indian students at one time are said to have been gathered for an advanced education.

It was no fault of the colonial churches that these earnest and persistent efforts yielded small results.

"We discover a strange uniformity of feature in the successive failures....

Always, just when the project seemed most hopeful, an indiscriminate massacre of missionaries and converts together swept the enterprise out of existence.

The experience of all was the same."[151:1] * * * * * It will be a matter of growing interest, as we proceed, to trace the relation of the American church to negro slavery.
It is a curious fact, not without some later analogies, that the introduction into the New World of this "direful spring of woes unnumbered" was promoted, in the first instance, by the good Las Casas, as the hopeful preventive of a worse evil.