Register of Former Slaves
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Office of the Assistant Commissioner Other Records
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1907, Subseries 4.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: The single–volume register of former slaves, "registry book," is unnumbered, undated, and unarranged. Included in the series is a list showing name, sex, age, color, occupation, residence, name of former owner, and former residence. The volume also contains "cash paid destitute freedmen," September 1868, arranged chronologically.