Links to Freedmen's Bureau Resources

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Skilled freedmen worked at the armyÂ’s carpenter shops in Beaufort, SC, and at other assignments, earning from $8 to $12 per month. (NARA 165-C-387)

• Freedmen's Bureau Records, main page
  
  
• Select Images from the Freedmen's Bureau
  
  
• Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview , an article from Prologue, Summer 1997
  
  
• The Freedmen's Bureau Preservation Project , an article from Prologue, Summer 2002
  
  
• Marriage Registers of Freedmen , an article from Prologue, Fall 1973
  
  
• The Rost Home Colony, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana , an article from Prologue, Fall 2001
  
  
• From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era , an article from Prologue, Summer 1997
  
  
• Sealing the Sacred Bonds of Holy Matrimony, Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records, an article from Prologue, Spring 2005
  
  
• Slave Emancipation Through the Prism of Archives Records , an article from Prologue, Summer 1997
  
  
• The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and African American Genealogical Research , an article from Prologue, Summer 1997
  
  
• The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company,
  Speech by NARA staff member at the National Press Club on February 26th, 2001, at the announcement of the Mormon Church's Freedman's Bank Records CD-ROM. A copy of the CD-ROM is available at the Archives I Library or online at http://www.familysearch.org.
  
  

African American Research - General

• African-American Research & Links
  
  
• Black Family Research: Using Post-Civil War Records at NARA, a reference information paper
  
  
• Records at NARA that pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade
  
  
• African American Records at the National Archives
  
  
• Black History Resources, compiled by NARA's librarians
  
  
• African American Genealogy Resources
  
  

Civil War - General

• Civil War Photographs
  
  
• Resources for Civil War Research

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