[Footnote 8:  Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, pp. 87, 92.]

[Footnote 9:  Pierce, Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina, passim; Botume, First Days Among the Contrabands, pp. 10-22; and Pearson, Letters from Port Royal, passim.]

[Footnote 10:  Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 92.]

[Footnote 11:  Ibid., pp. 2, 3.]

[Footnote 12:  Report of the Committee of Representatives of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends upon the Condition and Wants of the Colored Refugees, 1862, p. 1 et seq.]

[Footnote 13:  Report of the Committee of Representatives, etc., p. 3.]

[Footnote 14:  At an entertainment of this school, Senator Pomeroy of Kansas, voicing the sentiment of Lincoln, spoke in favor of a scheme to colonize Negroes in Central America.]

[Footnote 15:  Special Report of the United States Commission of Education on the Schools of the District of Columbia, p. 215.]

[Footnote 16:  Christian Examiner, LXXVI, p. 349.]

[Footnote 17:  Eaton, Lincoln, Grant and the Freedmen, pp. 18, 30.]

[Footnote 18:  Pierce, The Freedmen of Port Royal, South Carolina, Official Reports; and Pearson, Letters from Port Royal written at the Time of the Civil War.]

[Footnote 19:  Christian Examiner, LXXVI, p. 354.]

[Footnote 20:  Continental Monthly, II, p. 193.]

[Footnote 21:  Report of the Committee of Representatives of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends, p. 12.]

[Footnote 23:  Eaton, Lincoln, Grant and the Freedmen, p. 2.]

[Footnote 23:  Eaton, Lincoln, Grant and the Freedmen, p. 19.  See also Botume’s First Days Amongst the Contrabands.  This work vividly portrays conditions among the refugees assembled at points in South Carolina.]

[Footnote 24:  Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 15.]

[Footnote 25:  Williams, Negro in the Rebellion, pp. 90-98.]

[Footnote 26:  Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, VII, pp. 503, 510, 560, 595, 628, 668, 698, 699, 711, 723, 739, 741, 757, 769, 787, 801, 802, 811, 818, 842, 923, 934; VIII, pp. 444, 445, 451, 464, 555, 556, 564, 584, 637, 642, 686, 690, 693, 825.]

[Footnote 27:  Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, pp. 34-35.]

[Footnote 28:  Ames, From a New England Woman’s Diary, passim; and Pearson, Letters from Port Royal, passim.]

[Footnote 29:  Ames, From a New England Woman’s Diary in 1865, passim.]

[Footnote 30:  Special Report of the United States Commissioner of Education on the Schools of the District of Columbia, p. 217.]

[Footnote 31:  Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 37.]

[Footnote 32:  Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, p. 38.]