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Labor Contracts — Records Relating to Freedmen's Labor
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African American history · place not specified
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The labor contracts, 1865–68, are arranged by year and thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of surname of employer. These agreements between freedmen laborers and employers stated terms of employment, such as pay, clothing, and medical care due the freedmen; the part of the crop to be retained; and sometimes whether a plot of ground for growing subsistence crops was to be provided.
- Collection
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
- Archival grouping
- Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 2: Records Relating to Specific Bureau Functions / 2.4: Records Relating to Freedmen's Labor
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Catalog reference: NMAAHC.FB.M979, File 2.4.1
Collection: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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