Lists of Contracts with Freedmen
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Office / 4.1: Plantation Department
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 4.1.10
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content: Archival materials
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content: The two volumes of lists of contracts with freedmen, 1 (94) and 2 (95), are dated 1865. The entries in the volumes are arranged by parish and thereunder numerically, and each volume contains a name index to the parishes. Each entry gives the number of the contract, the number of laborers, the name of the lessee or owner, and the plantation.