Freedmen’s Bureau
Linked to Emancipation
Linked to Emancipation
From After the War, by Whitelaw Reid
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An 1866 sketch depicts freedpeople drawing wages from the Freedmen's Bureau, which was established in March 1865 to assist in the transition from slavery to…
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