<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983</dc:coverage><dc:date>1890/1899</dc:date><dc:description>Form letter from the fraudulent United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau assuring former slave owners that by paying a fee, the bureau would register the number of slaves they lost at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation so that they could be compensated. The United States Ex-slave owners Registration Bureau was a scam targeting former slave owners eager to be reimbursed for the loss of their slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation.</dc:description><dc:format>image/jp2</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Slavery</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slaveholders--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Savannah (Ga.)--History</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slaves--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Enslaved persons--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:title>United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau form letter</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>