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Book Shout Out:
"The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South After the Civil War" by Paul A. Cimbala
https://hcplc.bibliocommons.com/v2/re...

Additional Resources:

Mapping the Freedmen’s Bureau
https://mappingthefreedmensbureau.com...

Black Family Research: Records of PostCivil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives.
Washington, DC: NARA, 2010.
https://www.archives.gov/files/public...

Federal Records that Help Identify Former Slaves and Slave Owners
https://www.archives.gov/files/calend...

Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records
https://www.archives.gov/files/resear...

The Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations
By Paul A. Cimbala (1999)
https://hcplc.bibliocommons.com/v2/re...

The Freedmen’s Bureau Project
http://www.discoverfreedmen.org