With this end in view men and women who were fifty or seventy-five years old would often be found in the night-school.

Some day-schools were formed soon after freedom, but the principal book studied in the Sunday-school was the spelling-book.

Day-school, night-school, Sunday-school, were always crowded, and often many had to be turned away for want of room.
The opening of the school in the Kanawha Valley, however, brought to me one of the keenest disappointments that I ever experienced.

I had been working in a salt-furnace for several months, and my stepfather had discovered that I had a financial value, and so, when the school opened, he decided that he could not spare me from my work.

This decision seemed to cloud my every ambition.