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[[left margin]] 17th. [[/left margin]] The colored people in this District, are a generaly poor, or in poor circumstances and laboring under disadvantages at present, and are not able to build a school house, but are willing to do all that is in their power, for the purpose of educating the children [[left margin]] Report of Freedmen's Schools [[/left margin]] [[right margin]] Sept., 1865 [[/right margin]]
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