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

In business transactions the respectable portion of the white people are as polite and kind in dealing with the freed-people as could be expected But if a white man wrongs or abuses a freedman almost all the white people sympathise with the whiteman and protect him if possible.


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."

All profess to be in favor of education the old prejudice sill exists - against white teachers, they can not obtain a private-boarding house in a white-family. The freedpeople like schools but many of them dislike the having to pay for tuition and it is owing to the non payment of teachers that there are so few schools in operation. Schools have in several instances been started by northern men residents of this county but they had to abandon the idea as they could collect nothing in many cases from the parents of

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