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The Freedmen’s Bureau: How Racist Lawmakers Thwarted an Early Attempt at Reparations

This year marks 160 years since that bureau's creation, which makes this a great time to recognize its legacy, its unfulfilled promises, and what we can learn from it all. Although this agency was ...
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Records of the Mississippi Freedmen's Department ("Pre–Bureau Records"), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1865

This collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on five rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M1914. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the ...
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Expert in Afro-American Genealogy to Discuss Freedmen’s Bureau

Professional genealogist Renate Yarborough Sanders will offer a free talk on Exploring Records of the Freedmen’s Bureau at the next general meeting of the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society, ...
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Records of the New Orleans Field Offices, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869

The collection is comprised of digital surrogates previously available on the 10 rolls of microfilm described in the NARA publication M1483. These digital surrogates reproduced the records of the New ...