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Voluntary Statement of Mrs Adilsa Brown (colored) to W. C. J. Hall formerly Major 23d U.S.C.T.

"Mr Loucks came to Mason's Island and said he wanted to hire some contrabands, and I told him I would be willing to live with him if he would treat me well and do as he agreed; he said that he would give me high wages and furnish me a good bed, but when he got us here, he said he was not going to give us any thing but our victuals and clothes — he said that it cost $60. to bring us here, that I should not leave his house, for a year — and I did not go as far away from his house, as to cross the street before I came away the other night, and this because he would not allow me that much privelege —

He has threatened to whip us he