Register of Contracts
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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 / 5.64: Sparta (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 5.64.5
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content: Archival materials
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content: The single–volume register of contracts, March 1866–April 1867 (436), is arranged by year and thereunder numerically. The volume also contains complaints relating to cases of cruelty (August–October 1866), arranged chronologically; complaints relating to differences between freedmen and employers (August–October 1866), arranged chronologically; a list of indigent and helpless freedmen (October 1866); and a list of indigent and helpless whites (September–October 1866).