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Stewart, a former store keeper and trader in slaves, writes to Texas's first Reconstruction governor about fears of a "negro insurrection" near Waverly and Danville, sparked by rumors among freedpeople about a general distribution of property around…

Martin Sr. reports his arrival in Texas and his assessment of Cherokee County.

Writing from Mobile, Martin updates her husband about the movements of his father, Robert Campbell Martin Sr., who has "determined to return [to Lafourche] & run his Negroes off to Texas," where he will sell them. Maggie hopes that her husband will…

S. C. W Rudyard, the Provost Marshal of Assumption Parish, Louisiana, describes charges against R. C. Martin, including his refusal to sign a loyalty oath and mistreatment of "his Negroes," who have been told that "if they did not obey his overseer's…

Martin reports from Mansfield, Louisiana, about the recent movement of her father, William Littlejohn, to Texas "with his Negroes & wagons," adding that he planned to "haul salt from the salt works in Texas to Shreveport & take cotton & tobacco &c…

The former state agent for the Texas Military Board, A. H. Abney, explains to the new provisional governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton how he has managed the salt works under his charge, and where the money he was given for the business has gone. In…