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Freedmen

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85051692

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Bird Griffin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0596
Abstract

Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.

Dates: 1805-1885

John and Mary Wellborn Cochran Diaries, Letterbook, and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0326
Abstract

Three bound volumes of this Alabama attorney and politician and his wife: John Cochran's diary; Mary Wellborn Cochran's journal; and a miscellany of copies of some of John Cochran's outgoing correspondence, journal entries of his, and copies of some freedman contracts to which he was party. Also includes two unidentified photographs that appear to be from the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1839-1915

Letter from Reuben Chapman to Septimus D. Cabaniss

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4716
Scope and Contents This signed letter by former Congressman and Confederate diplomat Reuben Chapman, is addressed to Alabama lawyer and former Confederate officer Septimus Douglass Cabaniss. Written on February 5, 1869, from Sumter County, Alabama, the letter discusses Chapman's interactions with freedmen sharecroppers, his concerns about cotton prices, and various business dealings. Chapman describes purchasing the freedmen's share of the cotton crop amid concerns over price fluctuations and their growing...
Dates: 1869 February 5

Office Sup't Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4052
Abstract

Broadside listing the thirteen rules of conduct for "all concerned" which included: freedmen, employers, and employees regardless of color.

Dates: 1866 January 20

Ryland Randolph trial transcript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1179
Abstract

This collection consists of the proceedings of an 1868 military commission trial of Randolph at Selma, Alabama, for the assault and battery of a Freedman named Balus Eddins.

Dates: 1868