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associated with the Board of Education until the present, in Louisiana, and have always felt a deep interest in the social and moral elevation of the African Race, and ever felt it a pleasure as well as a duty to do all in my power for their present and future prosperity. In coming to Alabama I had hoped to find a wider field of usefulness and expected to be able to initiate and further on the Educational interests of the Freedman, feeling assured from past experience that the Planter would be speedily convinced, that Education enhances labor, tends to secure the Capitalist and proves the best possible means of procuring laborers and giving permanence and prosperity to all farming interests. I wish therefore, General, to know whether there are any provisions made for the establishment of such Schools by the "Freed Mens Bureau"

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not Brand of Education but Board, other changes