Marriage rules, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, S.C.

Freedmen's Bureau Act & The Freedmen's Bureau

Marriage rules, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, S.C.

8/11/1865

Historical Report

The New York Public Library features an 1865 historical report, issued by General Rufus Saxton, that provides the rules outlined by the Freedmen's Bureau--which was created by the Freedmen's Bureau Act and provided aid to free African Americans and displaced Southerners after the Civil War--in regards to marriages between freedmen.

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New York Public Library (Digital Schomburg Collection)

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