Freedmens Bureau

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Freedmen's Bureau US government agency established in 1865, at the end of the Civil War, to aid newly freed African-Americans. Administered by the War Department, the agency provided relief work and educational services, as well as legal protection for African-Americans in the South. It was a powerful instrument of Reconstruction. The Bureau also acted as a political machine, recruiting voters for the Republican Party.

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