Excerpt from Report of the General Superintendent of Freedmen, Department of the Tennessee and State of Arkansas: For 1864 In view of the fact that many think of the Freedmen only in connection with abandoned property; and the amount of matter it becomes necessary to present in this Report, in refer ence to those on plantations; I would here, especially, call atten tion to several classifications of their condition, which their care embraces, showing how partially they are or can be reached by any agents controling only industry connected with abandoned property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.