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Report of the state of feeling toward the Bureau Superintendents, and Freedmen in the Nashville Sub District, during August 1866.

Joel B. Smith. Supt for Coffee Co. reports Sept 1st "As a general thing the Freedmen are laboring industriously, some however have abandoned their contracts, it not being objected to by their employers on account of crop failure and other reasons. I find that since the adjudication of differences between the colored and white citizens have been referred to the Civil authorities the freedmen are not so successful in getting justice, also that there is more litigation. I do not wish it understood that the freedmen are unfairly dealt with by the courts, for I believe that decisions are in strict conformity to law, in most cases, yet the superior advantages of, the knowledge of law, is taken advantage of, by a great many white persons, and proofs illigitimately obtained whereby they, the whites are seldom the losing party, and the