Assistant Inspector General's Consolidated Reports on Conditions of Freedmen on the Plantations
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 7: Reports Relating to the Condition of Freedmen and Refugees
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content: bulk Jan.–Aug. 1866, May–Nov. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1027, Subseries 7.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The Assistant Inspector General's consolidated reports on conditions of freedmen on the plantations, January-August 1866 and May–November 1868, are addressed to the Assistant Commissioner. Arranged chronologically, the reports are in tabular form and include for each plantation the name of the parish or subdistrict; agent's name; number of freedmen (divided by sex) on each plantation; skills, condition, and age of freedmen; number of schools and children attending; number of acres under cultivation; and types of crops. Occasionally included in the reports are totals of figures concerning freedmen for all plantations in the parish or subdistrict.