Monthly Inspection Reports
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 4: Records of the Assistant Subassistant Commissioner for Iberville and West Baton Rouge Parishes and Predecessors
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content: May 1866–Dec. 1868
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1483, Subseries 4.7
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content: Archival materials
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content: The monthly inspection reports, May 1866–December 1868, are arranged chronologically and consist of retained copies of the reports submitted in accordance with Circular No. 35 (Dec. 28, 1865). These tabular forms contain an entry for each plantation inspection. Each entry identifies the plantation owner or lessee and indicates the number of freedmen (subdivided according to fitness, age, and sex), the number of schools and students therein, the quantity of land under cultivation (subdivided by type of crop), the number of workers receiving compensation, the amount of land rented or sold to freedmen, and average monthly wages.