Leek Plantation Freedmen's Bureau ledger, 1867.

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Leek Plantation Freedmen's Bureau ledger, 1867.

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This ledger of the Leek Plantation (eastern Pulaski County) is a "Total Statement of Supplies and Cash advanced Freedmen during the year 1867, in compliance with the Contract with W.R. Vaughan & Co., approved at Bureau R. F. &. A. L., Dist. Little Rock." It includes amounts of provisions and clothing advanced during the year as well as medicines, ginning, extra labor, and interest.

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Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

W.R. Vaughan & Co.

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