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Office S.a.C. B.R. &c
Corpus Christi, July 31/68

Lieut. Chas. A. Vernon

The freed people are thriving to learn to read and with varied success, they have built a House for Church & school purposes where they have preaching and Sabbath School every Sabbath and Prayer Meetings Wednesday & Friday evenings.

The freedpeople have no regular day school but aid and assist each other to learn to read as they have opportunity and capacity, their success have been quite as much as could be expected under such an arrangement, I cannot find a colored person that is capable nor a white person that is willing to teach a colored school.

The prejudice against the freedpeople is so strong and the indifference so great towards them generally that great improvement is not to be expected. The encouraging of the Freedpeople to assist each other in learning to read has had a