It varies in different sections.

For instance, Georgia, and Tennessee are probably ahead of any of the Southern States in point of educating the colored people; they have more facilities; they have negro primary schools and colleges where a man is educated.

The education that I was speaking of, more particularly for the negro, is a plain English education, sufficient to enable him to read and write.
Q.What we call up North a common school education?
-- A.

A common school education.

I will illustrate that.
Suppose a negro comes to me to make a contract that I have written for him, and he cannot read or write.