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them here. I think the most speedy, cheap, and effectual way for the Government of the State or for Benevolent Assocations to educate the great body of colored children in elementary knowledge, would be to establish at convenient points, free schools for colored youth, especially females, and fast as qualified send them out to teach. There are hundreds of capable girls in the State, who only need the necessary instruction and training — something like that obtained in the normal schools of the north, except that it need not at first be so extensive or varied, who would avail themselves of such institutions, and who would in a few years work a great change for good among the freedmen.

I have a Sunday school at Goochland C.H. numbering over a hundred pupils, and derive great assistance from several young colored girls, who display great tact and aptness in teaching what they know. There is but little interest manifested in this matter among the whites.

The wife and mother-in-law of R.G. Banks are the only white people who render assistance in the school; and to them I am under great obligation. The pupils for the most part are children and young people.

Near the first of the month I visited the school at Manokin taught by Miss Scott, a competent and successful teacher. I found the school in a very small uncom[[fortable]] 

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