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Racoon Fork. A school is very much needed at Pamonkey, where there is a large settlement of freedpeople. At this place too the public sentiment seems favorable to the education of the freedmen. It is at this place that Dr. Uriel Terrill lives, a white man, formerly a large slaveholder, who has given the freedmen land on which to build a church and school house, four and a half miles from the county seat.

Leaving Orange I went to Charlottesville where I expected to address the people. No arrangements had been made for a meeting, however, and after a brief and hurried conversation with certain colored men at the depot, in which conversation I learned there were no schools in session, I kept on my way to Lovingston. At the last named place I had the opportunity of having a general talk with white and colored men in that section in reference to the educational condition of the freedmen

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