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  2. Freedmen's Bureau - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, [1] was a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (i.e., former slaves) in the South. It was established on March 3, 1865, and operated briefly as a federal agency after the War, from ...

  3. American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission - Wikipedia

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    Through its report, the Commission recommended that the government help support freedmen through their transition to a free life. Their report was submitted to Congress and its findings debated. Its recommendations contributed to the passage by Congress of a bill authorizing formation of the Freedmen's Bureau , to help manage the transition of ...

  4. Freedmen's Bureau bills - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill extending funding for the Freedmen's Bureau (editorial cartoon by Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, April 14, 1866) [1]. The Freedmen's Bureau bills provided legislative authorization for the Freedmen's Bureau (formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands), which was set up by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 as part of the United States ...

  5. Black land loss in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Freedmen's Bureau was created by the government and President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 to deal with the issue of the freed black people and their settlement in the abandoned land. Sherman's Land was a Field Order that gave a significant number of freed black people the opportunity to settle on land in Georgia and South Carolina .

  6. Black genealogists' surprising findings using Ancestry's ...

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    Black genealogists make "startling" revelations tracking their former enslaved ancestors using Ancestory.com's extensive Freedmen's Bureau records.

  7. Freedmen's Cemetery (Louisiana) - Wikipedia

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    The Freedmen's Bureau, officially known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, was created by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865 as a unit of the United States Department of War, and "was responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War, duties previously shared by military ...