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The superintendents were further instructed to'protect the negroes in their rights as free men, to see that they were not in any way op pressed by their former masters, and to culti vate friendly relations between the two classes; to assist in the organization and maintenance of schools ; to discourage as far as possible the disposition of the freedmen to remove from one locality to another, except so far as it