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all large [[crossed out]] schools [[/crossed out]]and admirably conducted.

Not many night-schools have
been opened as yet. [[crossed out]] I found very few of [[/crossed out]] them. They will [[crossed out]] not [[/crossed out]] be opened and thoroughly organized for the winter [[mark?]] [[crossed out]] before [[/crossed out]] about the middle of December]. The night schools that I visited were small, but those attending gave the fullest evidence of their purpose to make the most of the very slim chance given them, in these schools, for gaining an education.

[In all the cities of the State; in most of the smaller towns, and in many of the rural districts, Sabbath-schools are established and well conducted. Many of them are managed by the Freedmen themselves, [[crossed out]] the [[/crossed out]] or the teachers [[crossed out]] of the other schools [[/crossed out]] only taking a [[helping?]] part [[crossed out]] in them as teachers [[/crossed out]], while the officers- the Superintendents, the Secretaries, the Treasurers, and Librarians, and not a few of the teachers [[crossed out]] too [[/crossed out]] are colored persons formerly slaves. Among the more prominent and interesting schools of this class are those at Raleigh, Greensboro, New Berne, Wilmington, Fayetteville and Beaufort.] These schools; Day, (except the Day-school at Fayetteville and the "Williston school" at Wilmington), night and Sabbath-schools are by no means full, but are on the constant