Reports of Outrages and Arrests
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of North Carolina Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M843, Series 17
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content: Archival materials
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content: This unbound series of semimonthly reports from subordinate officers of outrages, whites against blacks and blacks against whites, usually includes the date, place, by whom and against whom the outrage was committed, the nature of the outrage, the action taken, and remarks about the incident. These are arranged chronologically, June 1866–December 1868.

Following this has been filmed a series of semimonthly reports of arrests submitted by subordinate officers, August 1866–December 1868. A few of the Assistant Commissioner's reports summarizing his officers' reports are interfiled in this series. Information included in these reports is the dates, name of the person arrested, place of residence, complaint, name of the complainant, place where the arrested person was confined, and remarks on the arrest. The reports are arranged chronologically.