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

In reply to the above I will say, that the feeling is any thing else but good. The whites are requiring the freed people to withdraw from the Churches of the whites and refuse them seats in said [[strikethrough]] whites [[/strikethrough]] church houses where they are members of same and I believe they would refuse them seats in Heaven if they had the power &c &c

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."

The feeling on the subject of education is not good but they (the whites) find they cannot prevent it any other way. And they occasionally burn a freedman School House as was the case a few days since. The freed people are building School houses in many neighbourhoods in my Sub district and are anxious to educate their children. They can not (and I am not able for them) to procure Teachers. They may be assisted by having Teachers sent them.

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