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This collection is from multiple NARA microfilm publications. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. | This collection is from multiple NARA microfilm publications. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. | ||
=== Related National Archives Collections === | |||
*[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1224825 Contracts of Employees With the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1866–1870 RG 94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office] | |||
=== General Information About Freedmen's Bureau Records === | === General Information About Freedmen's Bureau Records === | ||
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These collections may have additional materials to help you with your research. | These collections may have additional materials to help you with your research. | ||
=== FamilySearch Catalog === | === FamilySearch Catalog === | ||
* | *Paula K. Byers, ed. ''African American genealogical sourcebook.'' New York, New York : Gale Research, c1995 {{FSC|722504|item|disp=FS Library 973 F27afg}} See pages 68-98 The Freedmen's Bureau | ||
* | *Dee Parmer Woodtor, ''Finding a place called home : a guide to African-American genealogy and historical identity,'' New York, New York : Random House, c1999 {{FSC|829837|item|disp=FS Library 973 F2wd}} See chapter 8 | ||
* | *George R. Bentley, ''A history of the Freedmen's Bureau.'' Reprint. Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania, 1955. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania, 2016 FS Library Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania, 2016. {{FSC|4440734|item|disp=FS Library 973.714 F875b}} | ||
* | *edited by Richard Zuczek, ''Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era.'' 2 volumes. Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, ©2006 {{FSC|3416545|item|disp=FS Library 973 N26z }} | ||
*Mississippi Labor Contract Index: Freedmen Listing Index. Mississippi Archives and History {{FSC|702953|item|disp=FS Library fiche 6334622-25}} | |||
* | *Mabel Green Crushshon, comp., ''An index to Hinds County, Mississippi Freedmen's Bureau labor contracts.'' Carrollton, Mississippi : Pioneer Pub. Co., c1999. {{FSC|958144|item|disp=FS Library 976.251 F22c}} | ||
* | *Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith. ''Freedmen's labor contracts, Madison County, Tennessee, 1866-1867.'' Jackson, Tennessee : J.K.T. Smith, c1996. {{FSC|768037|item|disp=FS Library 976.827 H6s}} | ||
* | *Ira Berlin, ed. ''The war time genesis of free labor : the upper south.'' New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, c1993. {{FSC|1719788|item|disp=FS Library 973 B4fr ser. 1 v. 2}} | ||
* | *Ira Berlin, ed. ''The war time genesis of free labor : the lower South.'' New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, c1990, 1991. {{FSC|1719789|item|disp=FS Library 973 B4fr ser. 1 v. 3}} | ||
* | *edited by Steven Hahn ... et al., ''Land and labor, 1865.'' 2 volumes. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, c2008 {{FSC|1719790|item|disp=FS Library 973 B4fr}} Series: Freedom : a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 : selected from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States; ser. 3 | ||
=== FamilySearch Historical Records === | === FamilySearch Historical Records === | ||
*{{RecordSearch|2431126|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Commissioner, 1865-1872}} | *{{RecordSearch|2431126|United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Commissioner, 1865-1872}} | ||