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Office Agt Bureau RF & AL Columbia County Ga March 12. 1867 To Col. Caleb C. Sibley Sir A circular addressed to me printed, G L Eberhart styled State Sup Ed Ga was received some 15 days ago, since that period I have been unable from indisposition from effects of Neuralgia &c to write I have the Honor to report I know of no regular school taught by Black persons Cyrus Bourke a black man & the manager of one of the Clanton plantations, had an only daughter who employed some black man to teach his daughter & keep his books, he working 15 to 20 hands on the place. Judging from the writing of the teacher it being illegible & marks made not signifying any thing, but total incapacity of the author to write or make significant hierarglphyis was to my mind incompetent to teach letters, he was soon dismissed I think & Miss Love's Ann is but little advanced in her education I might say of facts that came under my observation that in 1865 & 1866 I found quite a number of black boys girls women & men with books containing elementary rules spelling books &c, but for the past 6 months there is less display of it & I think the desire to learn is put off to a day more suited, which is doubtful of its return Your Obt Sert S. Crawford Agt.
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