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During Reconstruction in the United States, the Freedmen’s Bureau

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During Reconstruction in the United States, the Freedmen’s Bureau helped southern African Americans to enter into society as free men.

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Freedmen's Bureau's primary task was to provide assistance to the African American fugitives after the end of the Civil War. The agency took responsibility for the distribution of food and medicine to the blacks, most of whom were refugees, and to the whites in need. Its work also consisted of regulating the working conditions of the blacks, the formation of schools and the education of former slaves who were illiterate, as well as control and distribution of abandoned or confiscated land from the owners in the south. The agency also conducted legal proceedings which also involved African Americans.

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