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3d. without some Instruction or assistance If men are permitted to Swindle the Freedmon the way the same is now Carried on here in my Country I Taking up by any Kind Process Putting them in Jale about the time the crop should be looked after for no crime whatsoever so the men they hav been working for may sell the crop

I say if somthing is not don in this matter wimion [[women]] & childron must most Inevitably starve & Freeze to death.

Please Answer
Respectfully
A. C. Tyrce
Eutaw
Green Co
Ala

Transcription Notes:
Difficult to make contextual guesses for the unknown words, as some of this is pretty wandering ranting. e