[1230] See [Ch. IV, sec. 7].
[1231] DuBois (Atlantic Monthly, March, 1901) declares that the opposition to the education of the negro was bitter, for the South believed that the educated negro was a dangerous negro. This statement is perhaps partially correct for fifteen or twenty years after 1870, but it is not correct for 1865-1869.
[1232] The Gulf States Hist. Mag., Sept., 1902; Report of General Swayne to Howard, Dec. 26, 1865. The evidence on this point that is worthy of consideration is conclusive. It is all one way. See also Chs. [XIX] and [XX], below.
[1233] Report of Swayne, Oct. 31, 1866.
[1234] “Up from Slavery,” pp. 29, 30.
[1235] Daily News, Sept. 7, 1865 (Montgomery correspondence). Oral accounts.
[1236] G. O. No. 11, July 12, 1865 (Montgomery); Freedmen’s Bureau Reports, 1865-1869.
[1237] Swayne’s Report, Oct. 31, 1866; Freedmen’s Bureau Report, 1866.
[1238] Swayne’s Report., Oct. 31, 1866.
[1239] Freedmen’s Bureau Report, Dec., 1865; Ho. Ex. Doc., No. 70, 39th Cong., 1st Sess.