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The outrages in Duplin County are incessant, also in Wayne Co. and in Sampson Co.  In the latter Co. about 600 children & young people were seized & taken out of the county, & bound out to different masters. In some cases these young people were earning and receiving 25 dollars a month, & supporting their parents.

In Duplin Co. one Freedman had 16 hogs killed, his Horse stolen, his house robbed, himself beaten.  This is only one out of a great number of cases.  It is avowed purpose of a large number of people in that Co. to prevent niggers from owning stock or land - and this is they are determined to carry out at any cost.  These cases were reported it to the Bureau, but the officers had no means for redressing these wrongs, or preventing the repetition.