Freedmen's Bureau Preservation Act: Are These Reconstruction Era Records Being Protected : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, October 18, 2000U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 - 56 páginas |
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... Civil War , sought to settle the slave problem for the United States . From 1619 to 1800 , more than 660,000 African men , women , and children were torn from their homelands in West Africa , herded onto ships and brought to North ...
... Civil War , sought to settle the slave problem for the United States . From 1619 to 1800 , more than 660,000 African men , women , and children were torn from their homelands in West Africa , herded onto ships and brought to North ...
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... Civil War and post - Civil War his- tory and millions of African Americans interested in their family genealogy . There are many historians , genealogists , and family re- searchers interested in exploring the vast contents of these ...
... Civil War and post - Civil War his- tory and millions of African Americans interested in their family genealogy . There are many historians , genealogists , and family re- searchers interested in exploring the vast contents of these ...
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... Civil War by an act of Congress , the Freedmen's Bureau was created to supervise abandoned and confiscated property , but more importantly , to provide relief to freedmen and refugees . These records contain a wide range of useful ...
... Civil War by an act of Congress , the Freedmen's Bureau was created to supervise abandoned and confiscated property , but more importantly , to provide relief to freedmen and refugees . These records contain a wide range of useful ...
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... preserve and protect these records . I strongly and unequivocally , therefore , support the Subcommittee's passage of this important legislation . 75-060 D - 01--2 The conclusion of the Civil War meant the emancipation of 13.
... preserve and protect these records . I strongly and unequivocally , therefore , support the Subcommittee's passage of this important legislation . 75-060 D - 01--2 The conclusion of the Civil War meant the emancipation of 13.
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... Civil War meant the emancipation of more than four million slaves . In the post Civil War era , the federal government established the Bureau of Refugees , Freedmen , and Abandoned Lands to provide a social welfare net to support the ...
... Civil War meant the emancipation of more than four million slaves . In the post Civil War era , the federal government established the Bureau of Refugees , Freedmen , and Abandoned Lands to provide a social welfare net to support the ...
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Abandoned Lands African American genealogy Archives and Records Archivist areas ARY OF CONGRESS Assistant Battle Black BRARY Bureau of Refugees Bureau Records Preservation California Chairman collection Committee on Government CONG CONGRESS THE LIBRARY documents efforts emancipation Federal filming freed Freedmen and Abandoned Freedmen's Bureau Preservation Freedmen's Bureau records freedom genealogists Government Reform GRES GRESS THE LIBRARY Hairstons Henry Wiencek Howard University important individual freedmen interest Internet J.C. Watts Juanita Millender-McDonald KURTZ labor contracts LIBRA CONGRESS LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS look marriage microfilm Mooreland-Spingarn NARA National Archives numbers of African Oliver Otis Howard ONGRES Patrick Swygert percent pilot program pilot project prepared statement President RARY Records Administration Records Preservation Act Records Services RESS slavery Society Stephen Horn SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT Thank Tony Burroughs University of Florida Virginia Watts
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Página 4 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Página 26 - Bureau functions included issuing rations and clothing, operating hospitals and refugee camps, and supervising labor contracts between planters and freedmen. The Bureau also managed apprenticeship disputes and complaints, assisted benevolent societies in the establishment of schools, helped freedmen in legalizing marriages entered into during slavery, and provided transportation to refugees and freedmen who were attempting to reunite with their family or relocate to other parts of the country. As...
Página 27 - I would be happy to answer any questions that you or the other members of the committee may have.
Página 13 - Mr. Chairman and Distinguished Members of the Committee: Good morning. My name is Dr.
Página 24 - But, before this committee could act, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the...
Página 26 - Group 105), also known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865. The Bureau was responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War, duties previously shared by military commanders and US Treasury Department officials.
Página 24 - Carolina. (165-C-394) abandoned and confiscated property, its mission was to provide relief and help freedmen become self-sufficient. Bureau functions included issuing rations and clothing, operating hospitals and refugee camps, and supervising labor contracts between planters and freedmen. The Bureau also managed apprenticeship disputes and complaints, assisted benevolent societies in the establishment of schools, helped freedmen in legalizing marriages entered into during slavery, and provided...
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