Freedmen's Bureau By W. E. Du Bois

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~"African American Records: Freedmen 's Bureau." National Archives and Records Administration. National Archives and Records Administration. Web. 04 Mar. 2016. .
From this website I obtained information on the many records of the Freedmen’s Bureau. After the civil war there many people, such as slaves and whites that were poor, that the bureau helped in many ways to improve their living conditions. After the war almost four million slaves were free. The war was very destructive. It destroyed people’s homes even their faith that time would get better. Some people just had the very clothes that were on their backs, as all they had. The task of having to develop an entirely new social hierarchy was enormous.
~"Freedmen’s Bureau." History.com. A&E Television Networks. Web. 04 Mar. 2016.
From this website, I obtained information on the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Bureau was created through congress in the war department, to help freed slaves and poor whites in the south, after the civil war. The civil war was won by the Union. So, therefore millions of
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E Du Bois, titled the Freedmen’s Bureau, Du Bois discusses that racial inequality was an effect that brought the Civil War along. After the Civil War was over, people were curious as to what would happen to slaves now that they were free. It was also a matter of enforcing that slavery no longer existed as well because previous slave masters were trying to go behind the governments back secretly and bring slavery back. Although many people were clueless as to what to do with slaves a group of people were not. They soon created an organization known as the Freedmen’s Bureau. The aspects of The Bureau’s work, was amazing. They had excellent strategies that they thought were built upon solid ground. The Bureau was very successful at first, but over the years it soon started to fail due to finances. The Bureau was one of the most successful attempts at trying to fix racial problems in the

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