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  • Description is exactly "Report by Oscar M. Waring, principal of the Florence Freedmen's Public School, to bureau agent C.A. Tenge concerning the progress of the school. Florence historian Lee Freeman notes: "Waring notes that the school had 40 pupils enrolled with an average daily attendance of 37 and 1 teacher (Waring) but that he anticipates a school of 125 or 150 students soon.""

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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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