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Joe Davis

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats

Joe Davis

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Joe Davis describes attending a simple, old-fashioned school where his teacher was a white woman whose name he cannot recall, and his father paid a small monthly fee for his education. The students lacked proper desks and instead used slates for writing while sitting on logs that had been cut down for seats.

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