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North thus, at once, limiting immensely the extent of a school system. Poverty also compels parents to bind out their children usually by the year preventing them from going to school at all or takes them (children) constantly from their studies to help eke out a livlihood.
I would here note the fact that rent is often paid by the services of children who in these cases lead a live analogous to a state of slavery.
The encouragement to opening freedmen's schools are, I think, sufficient to justify great effort in this direction.
1st  Land can generally with proper effort be obtained "If means are furnished" (to use the language of Circular No 5) houses can at reasonable expense be erected and there are thousands of children who need the priveleges they would afford.
I have already explained what the people are able to do.
For the improvement in knowledge of adult freedmen I can suggest nothing but the night schools that can be sustained wherever there are day schools.