The Freedmen’s Bureau has received information that two its agents despatched to Berryville, Va., to investigate freedmen’s affairs in that vicinity, were driven out of town by a mob composed of the citizens of the place. Many of the freedmen in that section who contracted with their former masters for a share of the crop, now that the harvests are garnered, have been driven away by their employers, who refuse to compensate them for their labor — Boston Journal
(Liberator,October 27, 1865., pg 3)
