Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contract — Wake County
An early post-emancipation labor agreement registered with the Freedmen's Bureau, naming formerly enslaved laborers and former enslaver.
"Contract made this 20th day of October, 1865, between P. H. Whitaker, employer, and the freedpeople whose names are hereunto subscribed. The freedpeople agree to labor faithfully upon the plantation for the remainder of the year, and the employer agrees to furnish quarters, rations, and one-tenth of the crop. Freedpeople: SOLOMON (his mark), his wife PATIENCE (her mark), ANDERSON, and CHARLOTTE. Approved, Agent, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands."
Source: Records of the Field Offices for NC, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen (sample re-creation).
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