Freedmen's Bureau

[ freed-menz byoor-oh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, U.S. History.

an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.

Fined $100, to be appropriated to the use of the Freedmens Bureau.

Fined $100 to be appropriated to the use of the Freedmens Bureau.

Before election he had been an attach of the Freedmens Bureau.

Steedman and Fullertons report on the Freedmens Bureau, 449.

However, they had little to do; the army and the Freedmens Bureau usurped their functions.

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