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Agreement With Freedmen
This agreement made this 1st day of June A D 1865 by and between W.B. Easterling of the County of Covington and State of Mississippi of the first part and the person hereinafter named and undersigned Freedman of the same place, parties hereto of the second part 
Witnesseth, that for the purpose of cultivating the plantation known as the Wm.B. Easterling Plantation in the County aforesaid during the year commencing on the 1st day of June A.D. 1865 and terminating on the 1st day of January 1866. The said Wm.B. Easterling party of the first part in consideration of the promise and conditions hereinafter mentioned on the part of the parties of the second part agrees to furnish to the said laborers and those rightfully dependent upon them free of charge clothing and food of good quality and sufficient [[stikethrough]] quantity; good and sufficient quarters; medical attendance when necessary, and kind and humane treatment; to allot from the lands of said plantation, for garden purposes one acre to each family; such allotment to include a reasonable use of tools and animals for the cultivation of the same; to exact only one half a day's labor on Saturday and none whatever on Sunday
They also, of the second parties agree to attend to the Stock and Cooking of Saturday evenings, & Sundays as heretofore.

And it is further agreed, that in case the said Wm.B. Easterling shall fail, neglect, or refuse to fulfil any of the obligations assumed by him or shall furnish said parties of the second part with insufficient food or clothing, or be guilty of cruelty to them, he shall, besides the legal recourse left to the party or parties aggrieved, under this contract liable to annulment by the provost Marshall of Freedman, and it is agreed on the part of the parties of the second part that they will each well and faithfully perform such labor as the said Wm.B. Easterling may require of them for the time aforesaid, not-exceeding ten hours