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especially by the Freedmen. Labor in this whole region will be very scarce, and the means of cultivating the plantations generally wanting. 

Of course as might have been expected, most of the plantations are for rent or sale. 

We returned to Yazoo City by a different route but saw every where the same desolations and the same embarrassments.

A school for the colored people is needed here very much. Contracts have been very generally made with the Freedmen and to all appearances generally observed.

250 contracts are recorded, embracing about 4000 people. Lt. O B Foster seems to have been a very efficient and acceptable Sub-Commissioner, and to have managed the affairs of the Bureau well. 

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Just the city name missing again