p. 16 | Education Among the Freedmen

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 12, 1865

Education Among the Freedmen

A man writing from Memphis, Tenn., gives the following testimony:—

Will you believe it? In a few months, a thousand negroes have learned to read. Scores of them take and read a loyal paper,—they will have no other. A child has learned to read in ten days, who did not know a letter before. In one hour, another has learned the Lord's prayer perfectly. Memory is remarkable in them. Teach them, then. Teach them letters, and the principles of our Government. Last month, 1,949 colored children were in school in Memphis and vicinity. In six months, the negroes here have paid $3,720 for school purposes, and all this cheerfully.