HIST 2057 Study Guide - Sea Islands, Frankie Knuckles, White Southerners
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Freedmen"s policies: blacks and women argued freedom alone wasn"t enough. Different definitions of slavery depending on who you are: freedman"s bureau 1865. An agency established by congress to help the former slaves. Attempted to establish a working free labor system. General sherman issued special field order 15 (origins of the phrase, forty. It set aside the sea islands and a large area along the. South carolina and georgia coasts for the settlement of black families on forty-acre plots of land. He also offered them mules that the army could no longer use. | Freedman"s bureau helped with education, by financing schools, and health care: sharecropping. Black sharecroppers could rent a portion of the land from owners by giving a percentage of crops to land owners. Most sharecroppers did not make a profit (never ending cycle of debt). Failed attempts for suffrage: thomas nast, pardon and franchise . Image 2a: lady liberty is sitting in congress, former confederates ask to be pardoned.
