"When de war ended Marse tole us we was freed an' dat we could go wuk fer any body us wanted to fer wages. Dey was jes' lak cows an' hogs, dey would stray off an' didn't know whar to go an' fus' thing would go right back to deir Ole Marse." Angie Floyd, former slave of Everrette Floyd in Simpson County, MS
Freedmen Labor Contract - List of Freedmen
Planter: William Ainsworth
County: Simpson County, Mississippi
Date: August 19, 1865
NAME, AGE
ANNICE, 63
ALLEN, 18
GEORGE, 22
GRACY, 19
JENE, 22
SILVY, 27
SIMON, 52
WASHINGTON, 14
WINNEY, 52
Freedmen Bureau Labor Contracts
Microfiche Number: 47-049
Slave Narrative of Angie Floyd
All records are found at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson, MS.