After searching through the whole freed population for a dozen suitable teachers of children.

Mr.T.could not find even that number who could _read well_.

Many children in the schools of six years old read better than their teachers.
We must not be understood to intimate that up to the period of the Emancipation, the planters utterly prohibited the education of their slaves.

Public sentiment had undergone some change previous to that event.

When the public opinion of England began to be awakened against slavery, the planters were indured, for peace sake, to _tolerate_ education to some extent; though they cannot be said to have _encouraged_ it until after Emancipation.