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The freedmen having worked thus far with out any other recompense than nearly enough to keep himself alive, must have money to buy bread or seek some other place to work. If he asks for the money that he has earned he is informed that they have none for him, and if he dares to ask for a settlement and says that he must find work where he can get bread, he is called impident and after receiving a severe beating is kicked off the place without one cent for his labour, often without being allowed to take his clothes and threatened with death if he returns. The freedmen are doing well where they are unmolested. Most of them are striving hard to obtain enough to keep them from want during the coming winter.

I have not had any complaints from Appomattox Co. There has not been a freedman brought before the Civil Court charged with a criminal offence since the freedmens Court was abolished. The freedmen are working will, in that County, and the prospects are very fair for a good crop. For want of means the freedmen are unable to prosecute their

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