Hope this helps padre. http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/SlaveryAndEmancipation/freedmensbureau.html http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/fbact.htm Yet it remained in operation far longer than the stated time due to the Repubs control of congress. http://www.andrewjohnson.com/05AJFirstVetoes/iiia-5.htm Knowing this history it still amazes me the lack of support African Americans have for the party that stepped in to feed, cloth, and educate them when they were granted their freedom. Yet they gravitated to the party that for some 60+ years after the war held them down.
Fascinating GA, I recall that "40 acres and a mule" was lifted from a speech, as well as the "back to Africa' movement, but the Freedman's Bureau is a new one on me. This as interesting to me as Black Cowboys and Buffalo Soldiers Bro.
