The documents in this collection were abstracted from materials out of the Governmental Records Section of the Georgia Archives and involve Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee. The documents are grouped here because they were written about or for African Americans in Georgia and are among official state records. The most common theme in the collection is the treatment of African Americans before and during the reconstruction period. (Each folder is abstracted individually.) Particularly interesting is the attitude of the civil authorities toward the Freedmen's Bureau and the Bureau's difficulty in enforcing laws. Also, by reading the documents, one sees the attitudes of Whites toward African Americans in the counties and cities after the Civil War, especially in Henry County, Georgia.