In reading and writing I do not hesitate to say that the average progress of the children of plantation hands, as shown in every negro school from Fortress Monroe around to New Orleans, is fully equal to the average progress of white children at the North.
Reid asserts that the educational progress of African American children is comparable to that of white children in the North.
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