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Bladen County African American Resources
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Freedmen's Bureau Report of Outrages in North Carolina, June 1866 - January 1867
Transcribed from
National Archives Publication M843, Records of the Assistant Commissioner
for the State of North Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and
Abandoned Lands
M843, Roll 33 "Reports of Outrages"
SEMI-MONTHLY REPORT of Outrages by Whites against Blacks in the State of North Carolina, for the fifteen days ending June 30, 1866.
Date: June 26, 1866. Place: Bladen County. By whom: (blank). Against whom: (blank). Nature of outrage: Case rape. Action taken: Prosecuted in civil court. Remarks: none.
SEMI-MONTHLY REPORT of Outrages by Blacks against Whites in the Southern District of North Carolina, for the fifteen days ending 13th August, 1866.
Date: 7th August 1866. Place: Bladen County. By whom: Thomas Hurt. Against whom: Sancho Gillespie. Nature of outrage: Assault and battery. Action taken: Turned over to civil authorities. Remarks: none.
Date: 7th August 1866. Place: Elizabethtown, Bladen County, N. C. By
whom: Wm. Sutton. Against whom: Jno. Smith. Action taken:
(blank). Remarks: In case of Wm. Sutton who committed an assault on Jno. Smith. The justice of the peace before whom the trial was had
showed a disposition to favor Sutton and discharged him because the negro
was hurt too badly to appear. I procured the warrant and the costs had to
be paid by me. Threats were made that if I arrested Sutton I would be
killed &c. No reports of outrages by blacks against white has been
reported. No outrages reported.
[adapted from the Freedmens Bureau]