THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., Field Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EDUCATIONAL WORK.
Your Committee upon the educational work of this Association would congratulate its friends upon the great prosperity which has marked the past year, and which gives such rich promise for the years to come.
We find as causes for thankfulness:
1st. The permanent improvements to our various educational institutions in new and better buildings and increased endowments.
2d. The growing appreciation by the colored people of these educational privileges.
3d. The increasing confidence and sympathy of the Southern whites in the education of the Freedmen, and in the schools founded for them by the North, as shown by the words and deeds of prominent individuals and the articles in leading journals.