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This is inclusive of Mississippi blacks' independent educational activities, their combined efforts with the various northern-based missionary associations in postwar Mississippi, and local whites' responses to Mississippi blacks' various schooling opportunities. Concomitantly, this study demonstrates that Mississippi blacks' schooling opportunities had a definite social purpose, however, this purpose varied based each of the aforementioned groups' expectations of Mississippi blacks in slavery's aftermath. For example, overwhelmingly Mississippi blacks sought an education to enhance their overall opportunities as state citizens in slavery's aftermath, most northerners promoted black schooling as a way to assist the state's ex-slaves and demonstrate their ability to be both effective citizens and laborers in the state. Comparably, Mississippi whites sought control over Mississippi blacks' schooling opportunities to promote their own self-interest. 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