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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

CHAPTER II
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We visited the schools at Parham, Willoughby Bay, Newfield; Cedar Hall, Grace Bay, Fitch's Creek, and others: besides visiting the parochial school, the rectory school, the Moravian and Wesleyan schools, in St.John's.

All the schools, save those in St.
John's, were almost exclusively composed of emancipated children from the estates.
VISIT TO THE PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.
At the invitation of the Governor, we accompanied him to the annual examination of the parochial school, in St.John's, under the superintendance of the Episcopal church.

It has increased greatly, both in scholars and efficiency, since emancipation, and contributions are made to its support by the parents whose children receive its benefits.
We found one hundred and fifty children, of both sexes, assembled in the society's rooms.

There was every color present, from the deepest hue of the Ethiopian, to the faintest shadowing of brown.
The boys constituting the first class, to the number of fifty, were called up.

They read with much fluency and distinctness, equalling white boys of the same age anywhere.


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