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Malagorda 23 Sept 1866

To Gen Kiddoo
Freedmens Bureau

Der sir -  A cause will come on from this place, that in its bearings it is very important that a decision be had where bearings should tend to prefer the spirit of aristocratical domination of our old secession oligarchs --

The case is this - Mr Sloane, a missionary and schoolmaster of our coloured school and who is and has been endeavouring to establish schools of character, had occasion to pass through the plantations, on a general neighbourhood road (but not an established road) was stopped by one of our most - disaffected citizens, and forced to turn back and take a back road that debarred him from any intercourse with the freedmen of the county living on the plantations -

The principle that the planters wish and are endeavouring to establish is this - that no person shall go upon or travel through their plantations, or have intercourse with the freedmen, excepting such as they approve of - Therefore, no school master or missionary, can have intercourse with the hired persons on the plantations.  Excepting those that may happen to go to some place of meeting on a Sunday.  A hired man under this interpretation of a landowners rights, may be completely cut off during the time of his hire from any intercourse with the outward world.  If a wife or child should happen to be sick, or should any business happen that it may be necessary