Freedmen's Bureau reports, a valuable resource for people tracing slave families, have been stored for generations at the National Archives and Records Administration. Over the next five years, these records are being microfilmed and sold to institutions and individuals to allow greater public access.
The first in this microfilm series, "Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872," has been released.
In the future, bureau records will be microfilmed and sold for Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
| Regina Hines' Biloxi Sun-Herald article "African-American ancestry revealed on film" sent me places: W.E.B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk" essay "The Freedmen's Bureau," which begins and ends with "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," and the National Archives' Records on American Slavery and the International Slave Trade
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