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mar 22, 1866 - Harper's Weekly "The Freedman's Bureau"

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The Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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mar 22, 1866
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~ 159 years ago