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  • Description is exactly "(3) Dr. David Lindsay editorial about Oscar Waring and the Freedmen's Public School. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: Editor and educator Dr. David R. Lindsay (1821-1898) of the Florence Journal notes that he is under obligations to Prof. Oscar M. Waring of the Freedmen's Public School for copies of the British Workman and Pennsylvania Freedmen's Bulletin. In his short editorial Lindsay states: "Slavery is abolished, and the South honestly accepts a recognition of the fact; and to make our former servants recognise [sic] their relationship to society at large, education is to be freely accepted as the leading means."""

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(1) This is a newspaper advertisement written by Oscar M. Waring for the Freedmen's Public School, which opened in 1866. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: "the Freedmen’s Public School, which succeeded an earlier school taught in 1865 by native…
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