I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are saying here? I would give more credence to contemporaneous accounts than to yours; you obviously were not there.
In fact, I've seen many contemporaneous accounts that show the Reconstruction government was at least in part made up of recently freed slaves, who had no education & were not able to run the government - leading to incredibly high taxes, waste, fraud, and records which were poorly kept, if kept at all.
This is not a condemnation of the freed slaves as evil, just as not educated for the task at hand.
This was done because blacks in the south were legally forbidden education just as women in Afghanistan under the Talaban were.
I believe you are speaking of slaves being forbidden education in some areas. And just like in Afghanistan, some were taught anyway.
Before long in the south, it became evident that the majority of whites were illiterate,
Source? According to census records, this is not true. In fact, if it was true, why is there such a plethora of written records from the South before, during, and after the Civil War? I personally have copies of letters written by my ancestors in the South (who were by no means the "aristocratic elite") during that period, and they are better written both in grammar & spelling than you'd find from most high school graduates (and some on this forum) today.
and in fact, the Bureau spent more money on the education of whites than on blacks.
Source?
Even the KKK acknowledged it was really rather dumb to drive them out.
Source?
Llan-Ddeusant, it's obvious that you have an agenda, what I'd like to know is whether or not you have the facts to back it up?