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Bureau Agt Report

Fayette C. H. Ala
August 23rd 1867.

The condition of the freed people in my country is not very good. A large portion of them don't care, only for enough to eat, they work only when you are with them. They care not for your interest. They are cruel to stock, hence the people that farm won't risk them, with their stock. To hire one by the day & stay & work with him, he will do you pretty good service, but hire one by the year give him horse & plough & tools to work with and not be in the field with him, he won't do 1/4 of a year work, besides he will abuse your stock, brake up and loose your tools, &c.  There are no schools in my county for freedmen, and only very few, care anything about schools.

They have but little respect for each other, take them in mass. There are many orphans that should be bound out, they are kept by their relatives and go half starved & naked.

The larger part of them are inclined to be vagueish, and the major part of the stealing done in this county on a small order is done by them.

Some parents have children that should be bound out, owing to their cruel treatment & keeping nothing for them to eat.

They are a unit for Convention.
Jno C. Moore, Bureau Agent
Fayette Co, Ala