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Signature of John D. Webster
Signature of John D. Webster from an 1874 Freedmen's Bureau document.
Guilford Vaughan's School
Freedmen's Bureau school report including information about Guilford Vaughan's school in Panola.
Freedmen's School Report about Henry Mayson
Excerpt from a Freedmen's Bureau report about a school to be started by Henry Mayson in Jackson.
Contract with Freedmen
Sharecropping agreement between David Higgins and other freedmen with C. P. Montgomery in Oktibbeha County.
Hugh M. Foley's Register of Complaints
Records related to Hugh M. Foley in the Freedmen’s Bureau’s Register of Complaints entered at Magnolia, Mississippi, in 1868.
Civil War Service Claim
George Edwards' Civil War service claim.
Pupils in Vicksburg Schools
Milton Coates listed as a school pupil in Vicksburg.
Christmas Family in Freedmen's Bureau Register of Former Slaves
Richard Christmas and family listed in the Freedmen's Bureau Register of Former Slaves. He is listed as the foreman on Calvit Roberts' Twin Oaks Plantation near Hazlehurst.
Signature of Jesse Freeman Boulden
Signature of Jesse Freeman Boulden from an 1868 Freedmen's School report
J. F. Boulden's Freedmen's School Report for July 1868
J. F. Boulden's Freedmen's School Report for July 1868. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools: "Very bad in some cases"
Remarks: "Politics has run so high that it has made money very scarce"