Reports of Operations and Conditions in Virginia
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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 6
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content: Archival materials
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content: The monthly narrative reports of operations and conditions of the Bureau in Virginia, January 1866–December 1868, are arranged chronologically. These reports were sent to the Assistant Commissioner by the assistant superintendents of the districts in compliance with circular 6, January 29, 1866, issued by the Assistant Commissioner. This circular prescribed that the monthly reports would show the condition of Bureau affairs in the subdistricts, the state of feeling between whites and freedmen, and all matters concerning the general welfare of freedmen. The reports also include such matters as the relations of the Bureau with civil authorities in the districts, the relations between freedmen and their employers, and the quality of justice meted out to freedmen in the local courts.