Rules and regulations governing colored labor at work on the plantations under control of the U.S. government, 1863.

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Rules and regulations governing colored labor at work on the plantations under control of the U.S. government, 1863.

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Broadside listing fourteen rules and regulations instituted by the Gulf Department of the U.S. Government and overseen by the Office of the Superintendent of Negro Labor for the purpose of ensuring fair working conditions and pay for former slaves working on plantations. Rules and regulations relate to rate of pay, provisions provided by planters, behavior expected, and terms of work.

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United States. Army. Dept. of the Gulf (1862-1865). Bureau of Free Labor.

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After the fall of New Orleans to Union troops on May 1, 1862, the fear of violence by escaped slaves in southern Louisiana led to Union intervention to maintain civil order. The Union commander charged with restoring order to the Gulf Department was Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler. He instituted the enlistment of former slaves into the Union army and later established a wage-labor system on sugar plantations. General Superintendent of Negro Labor, George H. Hanks, was charged with oversee...

Hanks, George H.

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