Chapter XXII: 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