[47] See Carter G. Woodson, Education of the Negro Prior to 1861, p. 129.
[48] Sidney Andrews, The South Since the War, p. 98.
[49] National Freedman, June 1, 1865, p. 150.
[50] National Freedman, Nov. 15, 1865, p. 314; Ibid., May, 1866, pp. 139-140.
[51] J. W. Alvord, Report, Jan. 1, 1868, p. 27. American Freedman, July-August, 1868, p. 442.
[52] The American Freedman, May, 1866, p. 261. This does not, however, indicate in all cases the number of schools at each town.
[53] The school at Camden increased in size the next year.
[54] J. W. Alvord, Report, Jan. 1, 1870, p. 25.
[55] Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, Annual Report, 1871, pp. 19-20.
[56] Mayo, Northern Churches and the Freedmen, p. 300.