The Freedman Bureau Analysis

The end of the United States Civil War firmly addressed the governments view on the legality of slavery, but issues from the American slave era still lingered throughout the country. In particular the South was devastated physically and socially from the Civil War. Many southern towns such as Atlanta were completely destroyed physically and left desolate by the Union army, and the social structure of the cotton dependant south was completely upturned with the emancipation of the African slaves. The newly reunified government sought to reestablish the independence of the south and lead the region forward into a new slave free era during a period5 which is known as reconstruction. During this reconstruction period the U.S government created many new programs such …show more content…
The article was successful in achieving its aim of telling the complete story of the Freedman Bureau in Florida, while also explaining extensively how it ultimately failed at its true purpose in the state. The article makes the bureau in many ways appear as simply manipulative government organization which was solely placed in the state to act as a strategic political pawn. Regardless of the negative nature of much of the article the author strays away from appearing openly bias to one political party throughout this article which openly deals with numerous controversial topics such as slavery and political factions. Instead the failures and success of the bureau is simply put into terms of effectiveness throughout the article which narrows out a lot of the biases in the. The article is also effective in its ability to retain relevancy as no new knowledge or breakthroughs on this historical topic have been made since the publishing of this article and none are likely to be made in the foreseeable