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Head. Quarters. Post of Greenville Septr. 15th 1865. Assist. Superintendant. of. Freedmen. Greenville. Ala. Capt:- I have been informed in confidence, that on the coast of Alabama & Florida, parties having contracts for lumber, employ freedmen in large numbers, ship them as hands offering them large wages ($3. pr day), take them to the West Indies & there sell them into slavery. This information amounts to something more than vague rumours, & a successful trip, by which 700. negroes were carried off, is spoken of. The accounts may have been changed & exaggerated before they reached me. but I think them reliable enough to justify me in reporting such attrocities to the proper depart't. Very Respectfully William Kobbe Capt, 178th New York Commanding Post
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