What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

To assist former slaves in their transition to freedom

To provide land for former slaves

What was the Freedmen's Bureau's role in education?

To establish schools for former slaves

To provide medical care for former slaves

To build homes for former slaves

To teach former slaves how to farm

What was the Freedmen's Bureau's role in labor?

To help negotiate fair labor contracts for former slaves

To help former slave owners find workers

To provide jobs only for former slaves

To force former slaves to work for free

What was the Freedmen's Bureau's role in land distribution?

To provide land to former slaves

To give land to former slave owners as compensation

To sell land to former slaves at high prices

To take land from former slave owners

What was the Freedmen's Bureau's role in civil rights?

To protect the civil rights of former slaves

To limit the civil rights of former slaves

To ignore the civil rights of former slaves

To only protect the civil rights of former slave owners

What was the Freedmen's Bureau's role in settling disputes?

To help settle legal disputes between former slaves and slave owners

To always side with former slave owners

To only settle disputes involving former slave owners

To start disputes between former slaves and slave owners

What was the Freedmen's Bureau's impact on African Americans?

It provided essential assistance in the transition from slavery to freedom

It only benefited African American men

It had no impact on the transition from slavery to freedom

It made the transition from slavery to freedom more difficult

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When this lady died I descended like real estate in fee simple to her son Benjamin Stiles, Esq[uire]. About four years after her death, her two sons, Benjamin and David, were drafted to fight in the revolution. I also entered the banners of freedom. Alas! Poor African Slave, to liberate freemen, my tyrants. I had contemplated going to Barbados to avenge myself and my country… I went into Capt. [Samuel] Granger’s company, from hence I was drafted into Capt. [Samuel] Barker’s company of light infantry… ...I suddenly discovered a man riding up to me not more than eight rods distant on full speed with a pistol in his hand and ordered me to lay down my arms [weapons]... He said I must surrender to him who demanded me in the name of the King his majesty of Great Britain. I then plainly told him that neither him or his King’s majesty would get my arms unless he took them by force. He immediately cocked his pistol and fired. I fell flat upon the ground in order to dodge his ball… ...Finally, I was in the battles at Cambridge, White Plains, Monmouth, Princeton, Newark, Frog’s Point, Horseneck where I had a ball pass through my knapsack. All which battles the reader can obtain a more perfect account of in history than I can give. At last we returned to West Point and were discharged [1783], as the war was over. Thus was I, a slave for five years fighting for liberty. ...After we were disbanded, I returned to my old master at Woodbury [Connecticut], with whom I lived one year, my services in the American war having emancipated me from further slavery and from being bartered or sold. My master consented that I might go where I pleased and seek my fortune. Hearing flattering accounts of the new state of Vermont, I left Woodbury and travelled as far as the town of Lenox in Massachusetts, where for the first time I made a bargain as a freeman for labor. I let [hired] myself to a Mr. Elisha Orsborn for one month at the price of five dollars. When I had fulfilled this contract, I travelled to the town of Poltney in Vermont. There again I let myself to a Mr. Abiel Parker for the sum of thirteen pounds ten shillings, for six months. Here I enjoyed the pleasures of a freeman; my food was sweet, my labor pleasure: and one bright gleam of life seemed to shine upon me.

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