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the prejudice of the people but should one be sent from abroad he would be treated civilly and could obtain board within half a mile of the village at the rate of twenty dollars a month in respectable white families.
The people of the county are generally in favor of establishing schools for the freed children but can do nothing towards its support.
The teachers will be treated civilly and will not be subject to violence, but my opinion is that they will be looked upon as inferior and that they will have no association with the white population. While all favor the plan of giving the freedpeople a limited education, they say that will never associate with "a nigger school teacher". Messers Thomas J Turner, Nat Turner, and B.B. Jones, J.P., may be mentioned as responsible parties in favor of the project residing near Barhamsville, but a majority of the population also favor it.
I have addressed a communication to the Board of Education of this county asking them what part