Morals of the Freedmen.
After the mission had been established, one of the officers' wives remarked to another, "I do not miss my things nowadays."
Nearly all the church members had taken the temperance pledge.
"They have their vices," writes a northern physician on one of the plantations on Port Royal Island; "deception and petty thieving prevail. They are careless, indolent, and improvident. They have a miserable habit of scolding and using authoritative language to one another. All these vices are clearly the result of slave education, and will gradually disappear under improved conditions.... If one is honest with them, and gets their confidence, the rest is easily accomplished."