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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandon Lands
Sub. District of Memphis
Sub-Asst Commissioners Office
Memphis Tenn. June 10th 1867

Lieut S.W. Groesbeck
A.A.A. Genl
Nashville Tenn,

Lieutenant:

I have the honour to submit the following report of the condition of the affairs of the Bureau in this Sub District during the month of May 1867:

J. L. Poston Agent for the counties of Haywood, Lauderdale and Tipton reports that the freedpeople of his District are with but few exceptions working their crops well and notwithstanding the very unfavorable season thus far, the energy and industry displayed by the laborers will [[?]] with an ordinary season in the future, an abundant harvest of the necessaries of life. But my few laborers have thus far abandoned their contracts, and about one half of them have been driven to it by the ill treatment of their employers. The colored people are becoming more interested upon the subject of educating their children, and during the month a second school has been opened at Brownsville. The prejudice against the educating of the freedpeople is gradually but surely giving away, and Mr. Poston thinks