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promised them" Col. Wilkinson then told them to work on & remain until Christmas & work as they always had & it would all be right & they would get their pay then. The freedmen remained and worked until Christmas excepting some of the unmarried men who left before that time by permission- Dr. Crisp returned to his plantation during the Summer not having gone to Brazil as he intended- When Christmas came he refused to settle with his hands & did not do so giving as his reason that he had no money & that he had not sold his crops, which was a very fine one of Cotton some (50) fifty Bales of Silk Cotton being next in quality to the Sea Islands, I have heard him say myself frequently that he received more per pound for it than was ever before received by any man in Colorado Co for Cotton. The freedmen then carried the case before Capt Raper who was then in charge of the Bureau at this point but as the Doctor denied the contract he postponed action until he could see Col. Wilkinson who was then absent in the meantime he was relieved by Lieut Van de Zandt & the 
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