CHAPTER XXII. THE RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION. The Apparent Idleness of the Negro Sporadic rather than Generic.--He quietly settles down to Work.--The Government makes Ample Provisions for his Educational and Social Improvement.--The Marvellous Progress made by the People of the South in Education.--Earliest School for Freedmen at Fortress Monroe in 1861.--The Richmond Institute for Colored Youth.--The Unlimited Desire of the Negroes to obtain an Education.--General Order organizing a "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands."--Gen. O. O. Howard appointed Commissioner of the Bureau.--Report of all the Receipts and Expenditures of the Freedman's Bureau from 1865-1867.--An Act Incorporating the Freedman's Savings Bank and Trust Company.--The Business of the Company as shown from 1866-1871.--Financial Statement by the Trustees for 1872.--Failure of the Bank.--The Social and Financial Condition of the Colored People in the South.--The Negro rarely receives Justice in Southern Courts.--Treatment of Negroes as Convicts in Southern Prisons.--Increase of the Colored People from 1790-1880.--Negroes susceptible of the Highest Civilization 384 CHAPTER XXIII. REPRESENTATIVE COLORED MEN. Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.--The Legal Destruction of Slavery and a Constitutional Prohibition.--Fifteenth Amendment granting Manhood Suffrage to the American Negro.--President Grant's Special Message upon the Subject.--Universal Rejoicing among the Colored People.--The Negro in the United States Senate and House of Representatives.--The Negro in the Diplomatic Service of the Country.--Frederick Douglass--His Birth, Enslavement, Escape to the North, and Life as a Freeman.--Becomes an Anti-slavery Orator.--Goes to Great Britain.--Returns to America.--Establishes the "North Star."--His Eloquence, Influence, and Brilliant Career.--Richard Theodore Greener.--His Early Life, Education, and Successful Literary Career.--John P. Green.--His Early Struggles to obtain an Education.--A Successful Orator, Lawyer, and Useful Legislator.--Other Representative Colored Men.--Representative Colored Women 419 CHAPTER XXIV. THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Its Origin, Growth, Organization, and Excellent Influence.--Its Publishing House, Periodicals, and Papers.--Its Numerical and Financial Strength.--Its Missionary and Educational Spirit.--Wilberforce University 452 CHAPTER XXV. THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.