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unrebuked. The only restraint is the ability to endure and the means to pay.

The freed people are entirely without instruction either in morals or duties as citizens. Their ignorance of the moral precepts is almost universal. Their only instructor in morals is an old freedman who is as ignorant as any of them. and who knows nothing of the Bible except what little he has remembered from hearing it read or repeated. He never heard the Commandments read until my arrival here. When asked they all reply they never heard but one Commandment read and that was "Servants obey your masters", and this seemed to be the extent of their instruction and comprehenses nearly the whole law, both civil and moral to them

The law relative to marriage is generally observed, though I have found two cases where it was not. In its  duties and obligation they are not instructed. Bastardy prevails to a considerable extent, all unnoticed