Records Relating to Murders and Outrages
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1048, Series 9
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content: Archival materials
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content: The records of the Assistant Commissioner include three series relating to murders and outrages involving freedmen. The largest of the series, an 1868 register of outrages committed on freedmen, is divided into two parts. Part 1 lists cases numerically (1 – 90) for the period January 1–December 15, 1868. Each entry includes the name and race of the victim; the name and race of the perpetrator; date, location, and nature of the outrage; name of the person reporting the outrage; and the action taken. File citations refer to the letters sent and letters received series of the Assistant Commissioner's Office. The front of the volume contains a descriptive list for cases 1 – 81. Part 2, the smaller section, lists three cases, May, June, and July 1868, relating to the discharge of freedmen from employment for exercising the right to vote and for participating in political organizations.

Two small series have been filmed immediately following the register. The first series contains a descriptive list of reports of outrages, March 12–June 30, 1866, including brief synopses that provide substantive information on the nature of the outrages; dates of the reports; and the counties and districts where the outrages occurred (the full reports to which the list refers have not been located). The second series, containing statements by freedmen who were victims of abuses in Richmond, June 1 – 30, 1865, is arranged alphabetically.