In an attempt to support this transition, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly referred to as the ...

The fifth section seems at first reading to include "all the real estate to which the United States have title," which would give the Freedmen's Bureau control over all public lands; but this may ...

Now bear in mind that these persons are negroes; that they own the land on which they are settled -- something over 500 acres -- that they purchased it with their own money; that they have put up ...

But it wouldn’t last. Within two years, the government had taken that land back from the freedmen and returned it to the former enslavers. Over a two-and-a-half-year investigation, journalists ...

PRINCEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Nearly 150 years after Princeville, North Carolina was established and incorporated by freedmen, there are questions about how they would view the town today.