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The Freedmen's Bureau
Inadequate funds and less than zealous advocacy plagued the progress of the Freedmen’s Bureau. While advancement was made with the establishment of schools, one of the bureau’s biggest failures was its inability to distribute abandoned land to freedmen.
The Freedmen's Bureau by W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois writes about the success and failure of the bureau in The Freedmen's Bureau.

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