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Jan 28, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Thread 🚨: #RedForEd
As we march for education, let’s stand tall on the of our #ancestors with a RICHMOND review:⠀
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In March 1865, Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau.
It was intended to address another major problem created by the war, the disposition of property abandoned by or confiscated from planters and property owned by the Confederate government and seized by Union forces (the winners). Those lands were essential to the original design
