Labor Contracts of Freedmen
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 8: Indentures, Marriages, and Labor Contracts
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M826, Subseries 8.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: The unbound freedmen's labor contracts, January 1865–November 1868, consist of agreements between planters and freedmen that were approved or disapproved by Bureau officials. In return for the labor of the freedmen, planters usually promised to pay them a specified wage in addition to providing them with food, clothing, living quarters, and medical attention. The contracts are arranged chronologically by the month approved or disapproved by the Bureau. Contracts dated before July 1865 were approved by the Provost Marshal of Freedmen.