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In other instances I have positively forbidden the employers from driving off the Freedmen, where they were working for shares of the crops, and that if they did so I should hold them responsible to the Freedmen for all loss and injury that they (the freedmen) would thus sustain. Much of this persecution of the freedmen has grown out of the exercise of their political rights in registering; and is calculated to defraud them out of a great part of their year's labor, it being invested in the growing crops.

Such treatment seems greatly to discourage and dishearten the Freedmen, 

So long as they remain a tenantless people entirely dependent upon the present land owners for employment and thus a support for themselves and families so long will they be subjected to a state of secondary slavery.

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Servt.
F. M. Kimball
Lt and A.S. Asst. Commissioner

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