freedmen's bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau / Drawn by A.R. Waud. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 July 25, p. 473. Hard to find something more self-serving than this given the Freedmen's Bureau massive.
On March 3, 1865, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau to adjudicate relations between white planters and the now-freed slaves in the South, especially around labor issues. A potentially excellent idea,.
