Freedmen's Bureau
Summary
The “rebel press” disparages the Freedman’s Bureau as a political machine which uses the tax dollars of whites to “feed, clothe, and educate the lazy negroes.” But in fact the Bureau protects emancipated slaves from those who would harm them, sees that they are hired out and receive their wages, and provides for old and crippled blacks who were driven off their former plantations. It also provides for impoverished whites and takes charge of abandoned plantations.
Article Source
Newspaper: The Herald and Torch Light
Publication Date: June 20th, 1866
Page/Column: 2C
Town: Hagerstown, MD
County: Washington
Subjects
- Politics
- African Americans
- Aftermath of War / Reconstruction
