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preparing to leave for some locality where I can obtain white labor.  If the freedmen are not made to work and to keep their contracts, there will be a general displacement of black for white labor, and this policy, if generally adopted, will greatly enhance the difficulties of the subject, and add enormously to the expense of managing the freedmen.

With great Respect,
Yr Obt Servt
Jos. Segar.

Colo. O. Brown,
Commr. Freedmen
State of Va.

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