2. “Our Duties with Regard to Education in the Southern States,” Report of the Third Meeting of the National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches, Held in New York, N. Y., October 7-8-9, 1868 (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868), 111-18.


Report urging the Unitarian Church to educate freedmen in the South. The report’s author outlines four goals in educating freedmen: 1) the provision of an elementary education, 2) the training of black teachers, 3) the establishment of public schools for African Americans, and 4) the provision of opportunities for higher education for black students who qualify.