Register of Freedmen
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content: Records of the Mississippi Freedmen's Department ("Pre–Bureau Records"), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1865
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content: Records of the Mississippi Freedmen's Department ("Pre–Bureau Records"), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1865 / Series 1: Office of the General Superintendent of Freedmen
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1914, Subseries 1.8
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content: Archival materials
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content: The single–volume register of freedmen is undated, unnumbered, and arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname of the freedman. The entries give the name, age, and former occupation of the freedman and name and residence of the former owner. The volume is marked "Virginia," but the listed freedmen are from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama.