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Freedmen

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

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Bird Griffin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0596
Overview Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.
Dates: 1805-1885
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Bird Griffin papers

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John and Mary Wellborn Cochran Diaries, Letterbook, and Photographs

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

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4052
Overview Broadside listing the thirteen rules of conduct for "all concerned" which included: freedmen, employers, and employees regardless of color.
Dates: 1866 January 20
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Office Sup't Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Broadside

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Ryland Randolph trial transcript