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great improvement is not to be expected.  The encouraging of the freedpeople, to assist each other in learning to read, has had a good effect.  Their progress has been slow, but, they have made some progress so that many are able to read understandingly.  This plan of instruction was adopted in 1866.  The freedpeople get together [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] nights for instruction, but the rebels assaulted their their house, with missiles broke in their windows and doors, and broke up their school, and not until they were threatened with being arrested, and being sent, to headquarters at Galveston, would the rebels desist.-  and now, were it not for the fear of the Bureau authority, the freedpeople would not be allowed to hold meetings without being disturbed.
The best assistance the freed people would have in this place, would be to supply them with a teacher.  They could raise something for the support of a teacher, and probably after a time would be able to support a teacher wholly of themselves.

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