Records Relating to Contracts
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of South 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.M869, Series 10
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content: Archival materials
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content: There are two unbound series of records relating to contracts: contracts received, February 1866–January 1868, and contract reports, January 1867–September 1868. Both series were received from subordinate officials and are arranged chronologically. The contracts state the conditions under which an employee or employees worked or rented land and the compensation, in money or crops, that would be paid or received. Each contract report gives the name of the employer, the number of employees, and the terms of the contract.