Conkem Freedmen $ 500 Beaufort Freedmen 1,000 Columbia Bureau 100 Charleston (Orphan Asylum) Protestant Episcopal 2,400 Charleston (Shaw School) Bureau 100 Charleston (Meeting St. Post Office) Rented 40 Charleston Protestant Episcopal 8,000 Chester Rented 30 Darlington Bureau 100 Eustis Place Bureau 800 Florence Freedmen 35.75 Marion Bureau 150 Mt. Pleasant Bureau 40 Sumter Freedmen 500 Shiloh Freedmen 100 Winnsboro Bureau 50 Orangeburg Methodist Episcopal Church 2,500 ---------- Total $16,445.75 After all, the real significance of this educational movement was the policy adopted by the denominational bodies that they should establish permanent institutions--colleges and normal schools to train teachers for the common schools and also in time that the Negroes themselves should run these institutions.[55] South Carolina under the Negro-Carpet-Bag rule in 1868, then, for the first time ventured to establish a school system supported by public taxation. For this object there were practically no competent teachers to serve the Negroes. The only sources of supply were the persons trained in the schools herein described and a few of the northern teachers who remained behind.[56] Very small and crude it was in the beginning, but the policy adopted here at least furnishes the idea upon which ever since the public schools of the State have been mainly justified. By 1870 the Perm School at St. Helena was sending out teachers in response to calls from the State.[57] In the same year the principal of the Avery Institute reported that he was asked by the State to furnish fifty teachers.[58] This school was perhaps the best fitted to perform this function.