Plantation Department
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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
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1905, Subseries 4.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: A Bureau of Free Labor was established in the Department of the Gulf under a superintendent. The superintendent's office became the Assistant Commissioner's in Louisiana in 1865 when the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created. In July 1865, a Plantation Department was created under the Assistant Commissioner to supervise black labor and enforce Bureau labor regulations, which had been the primary function of the earlier Bureau of Free Labor. The records of the early Bureau are described with those of the Plantation Department. When the Plantation Department was abolished in 1866, the assistant quartermaster of the district carried out its functions.