The Freedmen's Savings Bank

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Identifikator:: 175265076X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129631

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Author:: Fleming, Walter Lynwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/120660560X

Title:: The Freedmen's Savings Bank

Place of publication:: Chapel Hill

Publisher:: Univ. of North Carolina Press

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: x, 170 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I. The negro at the close of the Civil War

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14 THE FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS BANK class, grew out of the various “departments of Negro affairs” and other attempts that had been made during the war to regulate the life and work of the Negroes who had come under Fed- eral control. The Bureau, designed to act some- what as a guardian for the race, was by the beginning of 1866 organized in all the former slave states. It was administered in the War Department at Washington by a Commissioner- General, O. O. Howard, under whom in each state there was an assistant commissioner with numerous district superintendents, local agents, inspectors, school superintendents, and teachers. The confiscated Confederate property, public and private, was turned over to the Bureau which continued to administer the numerous refugee colonies for the year 1865 and then dis- banded them. The institution, by aiding in the support of missionaries and teachers, engaged extensively in church work and education. Con- tracts had first to be approved by the official of the Bureau who had supervision over all matters relating to Negro labor, such as contracts, time, wages, and treatment. The subordinates who were in immediate control of the Negroes were usually ignorant of local economic conditions and frequently were corrupt and arbitrary; their activities aroused false hopes among the Ne- groes, unsettled industry, and prevented the early working out of a free labor system. The relief work of the Bureau lasted for more than two years and in some sections resulted in consider- able demoralization.? 5 For Freedmen’s Bureau Acts, see Fleming, Doc. History of Recon. I, p. 319 and Peirce, Freedmen’s Bureau, passim.

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