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why were freedmen eager to attend the schools created by the freedmen's bureau during reconstruction?

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From the first days of their freedom, Georgia's freed slaves demanded formal education. Freedmen's EducationLegislation passed in 1829 had made it a crime to teach slaves to read, and, further, white attitudes discouraged literacy within Georgia's small free black community.
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