Title	Employers to C. B. Fisk, August 24, 1865
Record type	correspondence
Creator	Employers
Date of creation	1865-08-24
Series	Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee, 1865-1872 T142
Description	Correspondence to Brig. Gen. Fisk from employers regarding the unfair practices of Mr. Sage against them and petitioning a change in administration.
Additional notes	Series T142, Roll 27, [Frames 429-431]
Excerpt from record	"We the undersigned respectfully represent that we are legal citizens of this community (having each served in the general army). What we are engaged in cuthroating abandoned and rented lands with the compensated labor of Freedmen. That Mr. Sage the local agt of the bureau is alike ground of equity and rules of [soideude], and in our opinion it is a disgrace to general arms to enforce his decrees. That in his deliberations he admits Negro evidence and excludes that of the employer. That he permits the laborer to terminate his contract at pleasure, compelling the employer to made full [illegible] compensation. That his whole course is unjust and oppressive to the employers, and productive only of demoralizing influence upon the laborer."
Geographic location	Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Rutherford County (Tenn.) Nashville (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Fisk, C. B. Doughty, W. N. Moore, M. F. Cunningham, H. Scott Cunningham, W. B. Hazen, E. W. Hazen, Henry Rass, R. J. Rass, W. A. King, F. H. Wheat, Ed. S. Corbin, H. B. Heagan, Chas. G. Heagan, O. Clarke, W. D. Clark, E. E. Clark, J. Warren Sleming, E. G. Clark, W. H. Sage
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Agriculture Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County Race relations United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Coverage	1860-1869
Contributing institution	National Archives and Records Administration
Medium	microfilm
Bibliographic citation	[Document title, date]. Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Series T142, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Freedman's Bureau Records