[Freedmen's Bureau]:

BUREAU OF FREEDMEN AND REFUGEES ... MR. ELIOT, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON FREEDMEN'S AFFAIRS, MADE THE FOLLOWING REPORT.

Washington: 40th Cong., 2d Sess. H.Rep.No.30. 1868. 30pp. Disbound, else Very Good.

The Committee recommends that the life of the Freedmen's Bureau, which would otherwise sunset in July 1868, be extended. Eliot's report is a thorough analysis of the Bureau's accomplishments since its creation in 1865, and lauds its fostering of free labor, protection from mob violence, education, and relief from poverty and disease. The report also treats the history of the doomed effort to distribute confiscated or "abandoned" lands among the newly freed slaves. Item #38216

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