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help themselves. 

The next year I believe will show a large increase[[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]] in the number of teachers and scholars in the country districts. School houses - oftener school shanties - will be built in considerable numbers, rooms will be rented, deserted churches occupied by schools too often of an inferior character. This will often be done by the spontaneous action of the people, and at other times stimulated by interested parties, white or colored, who wish to teach.

The number of native white Virginians opening colored schools or seeking employment is considerable. These are generally women in reduced circumstances or broken down school masters.- persons already sufficiently humbled to be willing to earn their neccessary bread by teaching colored children, While such teachers are not the best, they are better than none for children who are as yet entirely - 

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