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The 13 pages that link to Freedmen's Bureau, each with the reason it gives.

• Reconstruction eraRelated: Its schools, labor contracts, and relief work gave federal policy a direct presence in everyday life.

• SharecroppingRelated: The bureau mediated labor contracts and confronted disputes affecting freedpeople entering tenancy.

• Black CodesRelated: Its agents challenged labor abuses and helped Black people contest restrictive state laws.

• Howard UniversityRelated: The bureau helped establish Howard and supported its early educational work.

• EmancipationRelated: Its work addressed immediate needs created by the transition from slavery to freedom.

• Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesRelated: Its education programs helped establish schools that formed part of the postwar foundation for Black higher education.

• Racial upliftRelated: Its schools and aid programs helped shape early post-emancipation efforts toward education and independence.

• Reparations for slaveryRelated: Its limited work included education, labor oversight, and attempts to secure land for freedpeople.

• United States Colored TroopsRelated: It addressed needs facing Black communities that included many USCT veterans and their families.

• Carter G. WoodsonRelated: Woodson’s parents had been enslaved, placing his family’s history within the post-emancipation era the bureau addressed.

• Eric FonerRelated: Its work illustrates the federal government’s role in defining freedom after emancipation.

• Thaddeus StevensRelated: Stevens supported federal aid and protections for freedpeople that the bureau attempted to provide.

• Up from SlaveryRelated: Its schools and aid formed part of the postwar setting for Black education described in the book.