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Freedmen’s Bureau Online provides access to some of the most important post–Civil War records for African American research. These records document the transition from slavery to freedom and contain names, relationships, labor contracts, marriages, children, and disputes that appear nowhere else.
For genealogists, this site is critical for:
- identifying formerly enslaved individuals
- reconstructing family groups
- locating post-war residences
- bridging the gap between slavery and the 1870 census
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