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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.
February 28th 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown
A.A.A. Genl. Bureau R.F. &. A.L.
Dept. of the Potomac.

General:
In obedience to circular No. 6, Series 1866, Hd. Qts. Asst. Comr. St. of Va., I have the honor to report, that the feeling existing between the Whites and Freedmen in my Sub-District continues as bitter and distrustfull as ever. This is betrayed in many ways, both in language and actions alike. Thus, while there is an earnest desire on the part of the latter to, if possible, improve their present, prostrate social condition, their slightest effort in that direction is sure to evoke the most hostile opposition from the farmers. For instance, During the month an attempt has been made by a poor, white young girl of the place - a Miss "Harkrider" - Daughter of the former Jailer - to open a school for, or, at least, to teach a few colored children, at a charge of a Dollar per month, for each child, I have myself heard it frequently expressed, by white-females especially that it is a lasting disgrace, for a Southern girl of all others, to dare do such a thing, and she ought by all means to be driven out of the Villages; and I can hardly doubt, that, in the absence of all extraneous surveillance, some such measures might be resorted to.

It seems almost impossible for a large class of the whites to bring themselves to regard the whole

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