Letters Sent
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 5: Subordinate Field Offices / 5.2: Alexandria (Assistant Superintendent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.2.1
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content: The two volumes of letters sent, March 1866–December 1868, 1 (179) and 2 (180), are arranged chronologically, and each volume has a name index. Volume 2 (180) also contains a register of contracts for Parish Rapides, 1865. Information in the volume includes date, termination, and parties to the contract; class of laborers (men, women, or children); average wages; number at work for support only; number of acres in plantation; how cultivated; and the witnesses to the contract. There is also a register of contracts for Parish Avoyelles, 1865, which includes the same information as for Parish Rapides.