Contract with the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1866 January 23.

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Contract with the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1866 January 23.

Contract restores Ravenswood Plantation on the Edisto River in St. Bartholomew's Parish (Colleton County, S.C.) to J. Fraser Mathewes.

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South Carolina Historical Society

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Mathewes, J. Fraser.

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