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Excerpt from Report by the Committee of the Contrabands' Relief Commission of Cincinnati, Ohio: Proposing a Plan for the Occupation and Government of Vacated Territory in the Seceded States
The Committee appointed to suggest a plan for the present sustenance and future government of the Freedmen of the Southern States, declared free by the Proclamation of the Pres ident of the United States, beg leave to say, that your Commit tee feel the magnitude and importance of the problem presented to them, and acknowledge their inability to grasp the subject, or to render that justice to the cause which it demands, and which more competent minds may hereafter present to the na tion, aided by developments now in daily progress, modifying and altering different views to suit peculiar circumstances.
There are a great many difficulties to be encountered in any scheme of Emancipation which is to change suddenly, the forced or slave labor of three millions of people, into hired labor and a state of freedom. These difficulties are increased during the existence of a civil war, raging in the States where the slaves are to be liberated, and where there is a feeling in the master of exasperation, which leads him to thwart the operation of a system which has been forced upon him, and which is so odious to his education, that some Rebel masters would prefer to sacrifice the lives of their slaves, rather than to allow their capture, or to see freedom conferred on them by the Union Army.
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