In Florida, each free black man had to have a white man who could be sued for the Negro's misdeeds, if any, since blacks could neither sue nor be sued.) The Quaker Zephaniah Kingsley, who believed that the amalgamation of the "races" was desirable, was forced to leave the country for Haiti. In the South, free Blacks, who could and did learn to read and write, were often in touch with abolitionist writings.