Freedman's Bureau

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     Democratic Party flyer of the 1866 Pennsylvania congressional and
     gubernatorial campaign.

 
 
 
     Freed slaves on a Hilton Head Island plantation, two
     wearing U.S. Army uniforms, cultivate sweet potatoes.
    African American line up at the Freedmens' Bureau office.

 
 
 
Bureau officer promotes racial peace in the postwar South.
Harper's Weekly, July 25, 1868

 
 
 
 

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