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Bureau of. R.F. & A.L.
Hd. Qts. Asst. Supt. Sub-Dist. No. 3.
7th. District, Va.
Rocky Mount, Franklin Co., Va.,
September 3rd, 1866.

Bvt Brig. Genl. O. Brown.
A.A.A. Genl, B.R.F. &. A.L.
State of Va.

General:

In compliance with Circular No. 6., C.S. B.R.F. &. A.L., Hd. Qts. Asst. Com. State of Va., I have the honor to submit the following Report

The Freedmen in this County seem to be getting along as well as they are almost anywhere else, and the feeling existing between them and the Whites, appears, comparatively more harmonious than in many other localities.  As a general thing, they are pretty nearly all industriously at work; a few for themselves, but the majority on yearly contracts, principally for shares in the crop, which, throughout, particularly the Tobacco, are giving fair satisfaction.  Labor and its demand are about equal; the farmer being perhaps a trifle in excess of the latter.  Of course, as yet, the tillable land is not all under cultivation; but it it is hoped that there will be a marked improvement in this direction, from year to year, as capital is realized from the proceeds, or profits accruing from successive enterprise.

That all prejudice is extinct, could hardly be supposed.  It is difficult for a great many of the whites to realize the changed condition of affairs.  Any attempt on the part of a colored person to