This map, published in 1895, shows the aid provided to educational institutions "maintained or aided by the Freedman's Aid and Southern Education Society" of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In particular, the map shows the extent of the Church's help to education "among black people" and "among white people" in the former slave states. The size of the symbols and extensive amount of data covering the map enhance its effectiveness in communicating the Church's bi-racial work.
Rev. Hartsell was Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society, a group founded during the Civil War that played a major role in raising the rate of literacy of Southern blacks and whites after the War. "Our Field - Conditions and Needs . . . Illiteracy - Black People . . . Illiteracy - White People." Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society (1905), https://archive.org/stream/freedmensaidsout00free#page/n0/mode/2up, accessed August 16, 2016.
