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on their agreement to work for him the remainder of the year. They have now served out their term and of course have nothing. Little, the employer has left the country. Can anything be done toward getting back the fine? Taylor the J.P. shortly after the above transaction arrested and sold a white man, - one of the poor North Alabamians, - in order to show no partially, "on account of Color" in executing the Law. 

It would seem that something should be done for men who have lain in jail four days and lost a years labor whose only crime consisted in visiting an Office of the Freedmans Bureau on business.
I am General
Respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
C.W. Pierce
Bvt Maj & Supt R F & A L

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C.W. Pierce