Education was a "passport to distinction" for free-born and newly freed African Americans after 1865. Read about one teacher's experience in post-Civil War Virginia in today's Out of the Box blog. http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2015/06/17/jacob-yoder-freedpeople/ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html