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    Freedmen’s Bureau Records for Free

    Oct 19, 2021 0 minutes

    may now be searched by name at no cost. The records are those of the Freedmen’s Bureau, a federal repository for data on Blacks during the Reconstruction era. The Bureau, active 1865-1872—above, an office in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1866—filed data on marriages, labor contracts, rations, apprenticeships, and petitions.

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