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"Report the disposition and feeling of the white people towards the freed people as expressed by words and actions."

The feeling of the whites towards the freed people, is tolerably kind in San Augustine and Sabine Counties.
In Shelby County the freed people are only tolerated because their labor is needed.

EDUCATION.
"Report the feeling upon the subject of education; what steps have been taken to promote the same; what efforts the freed people are making in that direction and in what manner they may be assisted, &c., &c."

The whites are neither for, nor against, the education of the freed people. There are two schools (with colored teachers) in San Augustine Co. One school will be opened in Sabine Co., by an old lady. The schoolhouse there has been erected by the freed people.
The freed people of Law Augustine Co. are making attempts to raise means for the purposes of erecting a meeting and school house, but are succeeding very slowly, their cotton crops having been entirely lost.

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