CHAPTER XXII

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THE RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION.

The Apparent Idleness of the Negro Sporadic rather than Generic.--He quietly settles down to Work.--The Government makes Ample Provisions for his Educational and Social Improvement.--The Marvellous Progress made by the People of the South in Education.--Earliest School for Freedmen at Fortress Monroe in 1861.--The Richmond Institute for Colored Youth.--The Unlimited Desire of the Negroes to obtain an Education.--General Order organizing a "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands."--Gen. O. O. Howard appointed Commissioner of the Bureau.--Report of all the Receipts and Expenditures of the Freedman's Bureau from 1865-1867.--An Act Incorporating the Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company.--The Business of the Company as shown from 1866-1871.--Financial Statement by the Trustees for 1872.--Failure of the Bank.--The Social and Financial Condition of the Colored People in the South.--The Negro rarely receives Justice in Southern Courts.--Treatment of Negroes as Convicts in Southern Prisons.--Increase of the Colored People from 1790-1880.--Negroes susceptible of the Highest Civilization 384

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