[1190] Freedmen’s Bureau Reports, 1865-1870; Hardy, “History of Selma”; N. Y. World, Nov. 13, 1865.
[1191] The Southern Famine Relief Commission of New York, which worked in Alabama until 1867, reported that there was much greater suffering from want among the whites than among the blacks. This society sent corn alone to the state,—65,958 bushels. See Final Proceedings and General Report, New York, 1867.
[1192] Freedmen’s Bureau Reports, 1865-1868.
[1193] Ho. Rept., No. 121, 41st Cong., 2d Sess.
[1194] Sen. Ex. Doc., No. 6, 39th Cong., 1st Sess.
[1195] Freedmen’s Bureau Report, Dec., 1865.
[1196] Swayne’s Report, Oct. 31, 1866; N. Y. Daily News, Sept. 7, 1865 (Montgomery correspondent).
[1197] Trowbridge, “The South,” p. 446.
[1198] In the convention of 1867 this teaching bore fruit in the ordinance authorizing suits by former slaves to recover wages from Jan. 1, 1863.
[1199] N. Y. World, Nov. 13, 1865 (Selma correspondent); oral accounts.