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BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Head Quarters Assistant Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
4th DIVISION-FRANKLIN COUNTY-,
7th Sub-District, State Of Virginia,
Rocky-Mount,Va., November 30th, 1867.

Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown
Asst Comr Dist of Va

General:
In compliance with Circular No. 6 series of 1866, Hd-qrs Asst Comr State of Virginia, I have the honor to report that the state of feeling existing between the whites and freedmen in this Division during the present month has been comparatively favorable.    There seems however to be a slight estrangement between the two classes more especially evinced by the whites; growing out of the recent election nearly all of the freedmen having given their suffrages in opposition to the larger portion of the whites in the county.  But this feeling could hardly have failed to attend an exciting political revolution as this has been where the once master and slave met on an equality at the ballot box: and I believe it will be of short duration.

I have heard of no cases of discharge or even of threats to discharge freedmen on account of their voting for their choice contrary to their employers wishes.

Many of the Freedmen have been laboring during the present year for a portion of the crops grown on the land under their cultivation

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