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Office Supt Bureau R.F.& A.L.
Demopolis Ala Feby 4th 1867

Majr Genl Wager Swayne
Asst Com'r of R & F
Montgomery Ala

General

Perhaps the circumstances referred to in the following statement have already been investigated by the proper authorities, but it being a matter of such importance I desired to call your attention to such evidence as I have on the subject.

It has been currently rumored here for some time that many negroes are being taken from this to Foreign Countries and sold as slaves, and but a few days since, I was told by a reliable gentleman formerly from the north, that he positively knows of the existence of an organization composed of both Federals and Confederates, for the purpose of transporting freedmen from this Country to Brazil. He says that their method of procedure is to hire the freedmen ostensibly for the purpose of cultivating plantations in Louisiana and Texas and to take them to a