Friday, March 12, 2010

Report for the Williams School in Virginia, filed September 1867, by Sam'l. C. Windsor - Freedmen's Bureau Teacher




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(Elizabeth City County, VA merged with Hampton, VA in 1952.)

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"they want to send their children to school"
2 pages
National Archives [United States]

Prologue
Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview
By Elaine C. Everly
Special Issue: Federal Records and African American History
Summer 1997, Volume 29, Number 2
Publisher: National Archives