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

The White People are disposed to deal harshly with the freed people refusing to pay in all instances where they can possibly avoid for the labor of the freedmen.

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, etc."

The minds of the freed people have been rather dormant on the subject of Education but by constant persuasion on my part I have got them in the notion of saving their little earnings for the purpose of Educating their children, if the cotton worm does not eat the cotton this year and the Sub commissioners does their duty, and see that the freedmen are not cheated out of their hard earnings by the whites they will be able to send their children to school next year if they will save their money.

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