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5.7 P O S T WAR RECOl/ERV AND G R A N T IS M 1 8 6 6 -1 8 7 7
FREEVMEN’S BUREAU 1866 ITS FORERUNNERS

CongAess passed an Act {sOA a "BuAeau Refu & Abandoned w ith a
buAeau in each o ^ th e Southern S t a t e s . L in c o ln sig n e d t h is and in 1866 Joh n son
appoin ted Gen. O t is HowaAd as Com m issioneA. O b je c tiv e s in c lu d e d e s ta b lis h in g
s c h o o ls , fe ed in g Ae^ugees & pA oviding m edical a id . I t was c lo se d down in 1872. The
escaped s la v e SojouAneA TAuth was appoin ted a "C o u n sello A to th e p e o p le " , 1865-66.

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dedi L O U I S V I L L E / K V . , JUN 19 ’66; Kentucky Fneedmen’i
Aaiitant Comiiiionen ^on Kentucky mi Gen. Clinton

Released slaves became a pAoblem faoA the Union as soon as i t enteAed the South
because i t had no AesouAces to help them. Religious So cieties and ChaAities in NoAtheAn
C itie s set up FAeedmen’s R elie f Associations which in 1862 combined in to a national
oAganisation pAoviding missionaAy woAkeAS and to ^ and minister, to the

New Vonk National Fneedmen'iRelief h i i o c i aCoven, with edi NFlil NOV.2.
Sticken depicti abolitioniit John Bnown, executed in Vinginia in 59 ^jo/t the at

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