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of the authority of their liege lords. - I have embraced every opportunity by which to remedy this evil by endeavoring to impress upon their minds that the solutions existing between the colored husband + wife are precisely the same as those existing between the white husband + wife &c and I am gratified to be able to state that my efforts in this direction have been attended with singular success. - I am satisfied however that these troubles are attributable to an ignorance of the true nature and obligations of the married relation and will disappear in the nature in which these people advance in civilization and intelligence.- 
Considerable interest is manifested in the establishment of schools. but owing to the poverty of these people they cannot provide means with which to secure competent teachers. Several schools on a small scale have been organized during

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