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LOCAL
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January 1, 1867
| Marriage statistics in Augusta County.
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| April 10,
1867 | Population statistics from Augusta
County. |
| May 8,
1867 | Captain Jackson's activities as
Supervisor of Registration. |
| August 2,
1867
| A local meeting passed resolutions for a convention
to be held in Richmond, and nominated both black and white delegates to
go. |
| November 8,
1867 | A local black demands his forty acres and
a mule after voting in the elections |
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VIRGINIA |
| January 18,
1867 | Article states that the black population of
Virginia is declining. |
| February 8,
1867 | The Bureau is now issuing ration to whites
as well as blacks. |
| February 8,
1867 | The Bureau is addressing the needs of the
suffering of the poor. |
| April 3,
1867 | Article stating that suffrage will cause
"little inconvenience" to the white population. |
| July 26,
1867 | Article complaining that freedmen living in
the Hampton/Williamsburg area are abusing government support. |
| November 8,
1867 | Article predicting what the results will
be of universal suffrage for the freedmen. |
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NATIONAL
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| January
4, 1867 | Criticism of the working conditions the
Bureau attempted to establish. |
| January
9, 1867 | Discussion of the establishment of a
black college with northern funds.
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| January
11, 1867 | Shifting black population in the
South. |
| January
30, 1867 | General Howard's instructions on
procedure for negotiating contracts on the freedmen's behalf. |
| May 22, 1867
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Freedman discusses which white men should hold court appointed posts.
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June 28, 1867 |
Freedmen are being sold as slaves in Cuba. |
| July
26, 1867 | A correspondent recounts a conversaion
wherein Frederick Douglass advocates a black Vice President. |
| August 17, 1867 | A discussion of the significance of various appellations in
currency for designating the black population. |
| August 23, 1867 | An article decrying the nomination of a black man nominated
to the North Carolina state convention. |
| August 30, 1867 | A report speculating on black and white population growth in
the South. |
| August 30, 1867 | An
editorial culled
from the New York News asserting that black suffrage will lead to
the repudiation of the government's national debt. |