Freedman’s Bureau

Freedmens power is as intumesce as known as the Ex-Slaves Friend was created on March 4th of 1865 during the Reconstruction era by the U.S. government as a federal agency and a vary of the United States Department of warfare to uphold the impudentlyly released and freed slavery which is also known as freedmen and southern white refugees transition to freedom in the Southern States and the District of Columbia. The Bill was created by President Abraham Lincoln and was originally intended to last for wiz year to abet the freedmen but sooner it lasted until 1872 and President Ulysses S. Grant broke it up.To distinguish it from being known as just a welfare agency, the agencys employees also helped ex-slaves queue employment, investigated unfair treatment complaint, and also help negotiated force contracts for the slaves. After the well-bredian War, Freedmens vanity is the only federal agency that help protects the civil rights of the former slaves and the only place that enable them to seek help when their rights were violate thus creating a hostility among the White Southerners.Although the bureau was circuitup to help distribute food, housing, medical aid, and clothing to the freed slaves and the Southern white refugees, the bureau or so well known successes were in education. During that period of 1865 1872 there were more than cubic yard Negro schools built and was taught by well- qualified instructors and had educated more than 250,000 African Americans. Most of the black colleges around the United States were founded with the help of the agency and a lot of them still exist today.The successes of the Bureau in its education goals were spoil by the failure of its land redistribution. At first the Bureau had gave 850,000 demesne to the freedmen but President Andrew Johnson later took it back and the land in fling were given to the Confederate landowners giving the blacks no choice and forcing them to work in the plantations. At first th e white landowners wanted to restore gang labor but the freedmen wanted to maintain their freedom refused to sign the contract lastly forcing the white owner to come up with sharecropping as some pick out of compromise. Under sharecropping, the land was divided into a 20 to 50 acres parcel that allowed a single family to farm it. The deal is usually fractional of the crop to be given to the landlord in exchange for the land, housing and supplies.The Bureau one and only commissioner is Major command Oliver Otis Howard. General Howard was the supplier of moral purpose, an ideological framework and a vision for the bureau. He was once warned by his friend, General William Sherman after hearing about his new assignment and the task given to him that this is a Hercules of a task. After pass judgment his new assignment, General Howard was given very little help from the sexual congress and most of it is from some sort of hand me down from the Department of War in the form of personn el and what left of the army funds and relied heavy on the few private relief, missionary and educational associations of the North.In his autobiography, General Howard expressed his frustration on how the Congress disbanded his Bureau by direct him on a temporary mission to deal with the Indian personal business in the west and upon his return he found out that the Bureau and all its activities had been suspended. Howard University in Washington D.C. which is founded by General Howard is a well known and it is a predominantly black university and he was the third professorship of the university.In conclusion the Bureau did not accomplished all that it is set up to do. Its role in Reconstruction in the South had created a huge debate on if the bureau had done enough to help the freedmen and the refugees but given that they were working on a limited resources one cannot fault the bureau completely and most historian agreed that any(prenominal) the bureau did not do was because it could notReferenceshttp//encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6257/Freedmen-s-Bureau.htmlhttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Refugees,_Freedmen_and_Abandoned_Lands