Freedmen's Bureau

  • Original purpose was to help booth former slaves and poor whites cape with their everyday problem by offering them clothing, food, and other necessities.
  • Later became to help adjust to their new circumstances. Especially education.



  • Started as buraue of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned land by U.S Government. 
  • To last one year extended by  Congrees over President Johnson 's vote 


  • job was to help freed slaves and poor whites with basic needs
  • –food, clothing, and shelter (social services)
  • •purpose shifted to education/training
  • –set up 4,000 primary schools
  • –started industrial schools for job training
  • –started teacher-training schools
  • •missionaries started schools such as
  • –Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Clark College

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