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  • Description is exactly "(1 and 2) Letter from Capt C.A. Tenge, Freedmen's Bureau Agent of Florence to Col. John B. Callis, reporting on the condition of the school in Florence. Historian Lee Freeman notes, "Tenge reports 110 students with an average attendance of 86 and also the number of students using various readers. Then he mentions the "alphabet class" taught by EM Mears and wife under the supervision of what appears to have been a Presbyterian aid society. Tenge also references several "minor schools" in the surrounding area taught by freedmen. Prof. George Poole's school had apparently been one such school taught in Florence in 1865. Tenge also noted that "the former aversion of the whites [to black schools] is fastly [sic] diminishing.""

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According to Florence historian Lee Freeman, "The Freedmen’s Public School, seems to have succeeded a series of earlier schools, such as that taught in 1865 by native African-American and former Wesleyan College bootblack "Prof." George Poole…
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