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A Committee of Freedmen on Edisto Island Reveal Their Expectations

This letter was written by a group of freedmen to the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land (known as the Freedmen’s Bureau). The freedmen were from Edisto Island, South Carolina, an area that came under Union [...]

Tags: Emancipation, Freedmen's Bureau, land, Reconstruction, south carolina
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Historical Era: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)

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