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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen, 1883 In some of these institutions hopeful beginnings have been made in the introduction of industrial departments. Schools of carpentry have been introduced with good results in a few of them. Some have introduced forges and turning lathes; tentative efforts in shoe-making and cabinet work have been made in a few institutions; two or three have accomplished much in brick-making; a number have made some progress in farm work. There is not much Opportunity for diversified instruction in handicraft in the schools for colored girls most of the schools, however, seek to teach them all that belongs to housekeeping and home - making, and with encouraging results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.