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as they spend a great deal of their time & money in visiting their "Kin" & looking after their children seperated from them prior & during the war. This will no doubt continue to be a source of great misfortune to these people, for some time as every possible impediment (as a general rule) is thrown in their way to the recovery of their children by the white people who in almost every instance do not wish to give them up, but make strenuous efforts to have the children apprenticed to them. 

No children have been bound by me during the month of Aug/66 the consent of the Parent or nearest Kin" cannot be had for any such purpose.

In many instances the children who have been seperated from their parents for a long time, do not & in fact will not unless forced, go with their Parents because of the influence brought to bear upon them by their former owners.

The unsettled condition of the domestic affairs of the Freedmen is now the greatest obsticle in the way of their prosperity as their employers are unwilling to encourage them in their efforts to get their children — together —for this alone I would say that the Bureau is

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obstacle misspelled in original. Maintained. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-05 23:09:40