The Freedmen's Bureau and the Native American Reservation System

Scholar Jim Downs explains how the same men and women deployed in the Freedmen's Bureau to help former slaves worked on the relocation and reservation system for Native Americans.

Jim Downs is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Photographs:
(1) Contraband camp, Richmond, VA, 1865. The US National Archives and Records Administration. ARC Identifier 524494 / Local Identifier 111-B-75.
(2) Slave Prison, Alexandria, VA, ca. 1860 - ca. 1865. The US National Archives and Records Administration. ARC Identifier 529224 / Local Identifier 111-B-5119.

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