of the blacks for civilization, the experiment has been entirely satisfactory. It has demonstrated beyond controversy, that, under the usual inducements of free labor, they will be industrious and efficient laborers."

On March 3, 1865 the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Refugees was created. Whatever lessons were learned in Port Royal and throughout the rest of the south would hopefully become part of the Bureau in the reconstruction of the south. The National Freedmen's Association would essentially collapse in a few years after the war but the American Missionary Association would expand its mission sending throughout the south. Then the AMA with the Freedmen's Bureau would create a series of institutions of higher learning across the south some of which still exist today. (Go to History of the Freedmen'sBureau.)

Schools and LocationsEach society listed its own recruits and teacher and superintendents it supported in its own literature. This means that a comprehensive picture of all the missionaries, teachers, superintendents is hard to create.

Other 1862Charles P Ware from Milton Mass.

Port Royal Relief SocietyThe Port Royal Society would support Laura M. Towne. Her school would be called Penn School. She would start on Pope's Plantation on St. Helena in 1862. Miss Towne would be the superintendent for all the Port Royal Schools on St. Helena. (See chart of Port Royal Relief Society Teachers and Schools)

Schools of the National Freedmen's Association(National Freedmen Vol II #7 July 1866)Beaufort District.

Beadfortt, Port Royal Island, S. C.,) June 8, 1866. Dear Sir:—I propose to give you a full statement in relation to our schools,