Richard Etheridge, “A Man among the Men”
the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, protesting the mistreatment that Blacks on Roanoke Island were suffering at the hands of the occupying army. "[T]he white soldiers break into our houses act as they please steal our chickens rob our gardens and if any one defends their-Selves against them they are taken to the gard house for it. so our familys have no protection when Mr Streeter is here to protect them and will not do it."
