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"Report the disposition and feeling of the white people towards the freed people, as expressed by words and actions."
It is far from favorable towards the freedpeople. The whites generally look upon and call these freedmen, liars and thieves. Many are driven from their homes and crops by threats of violence, some have been assaulted and beaten unmercifully and some murdered.

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."
I do not think that the whites generally desire that the freedmen or children should be education, and I know of no effort being made by them to promote the same.  The Colored people (as an abstract question) think education a very important matter, and many are desirous of sending their children to school; while others complain that they have not the money to pay for their children's tuition. I have good information and believe, that if a competent, energetic, honest and temperate man should be sent here, he could secure a school of two hundred scholars. Good teachers are all that is required.