Oliver Howard

Americas

The US government set up the Freedmen's Bureau to help the nearly four million people who had just been freed from slavery. It provided food, housing, medica…

• 1865 CE

  Freedmen's Bureau Created

  The US government set up the Freedmen's Bureau to help the nearly four million people who had just been freed from slavery. It provided food, housing, medical care, and schools to formerly enslaved people.