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  • Description is exactly "(3 and 4) Letter from F.M. Mears, a teacher in the Florence Freedmen's Public School, to Col. John B. Callis. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes that Mears is notifying Callis, "of the fact that there were two freedmen teaching in schools near Florence who couldn't read well enough in McGuffey's Third Reader to be teaching other freedmen and asks Col. Callis to empower Capt. Tenge, the Freedmen's Bureau Agent of Florence with the authority to examine teachers in the freedmen's schools to ensure their qualifications to teach.""

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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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