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The Freedmen's Bureau
COLLAPSE
I found The Freedmen's Bureau interesting. It was an experiment in government social policy agency that was established in March 1865. The Freedmen's Bureau agents were supposed to establish schools, provide aid to the poor and elderly and settle differences between whites and blacks. The Freedmen's Bureau was interesting to me because it showed support for the slaves. It was established to create a working free labor system and although it did not accomplish everything it did help establish education. The Bureau agents also provided medical care and drugs to the hospitals established during the war.
Gender Roles among Slaves
Some thing that I found interesting in chapter 11 was During the slave time, gender roles under slavery differed markedly from those in the larger society. During the time of slaves, men and woman were equal in the sense of powerlessness. Meaning they basically they all did the same tasks there was no discrimination in race. The only time gender did play a role in slaves was when some planters allowed their slaves small plots of their land so they could grow food to supplement. But regardless men couldn't provide for their families nor protect their woman from physical or sexual abuse, nor determine how their children had to work. This was all very sad to me. Imagining how helpless the men felt for their families. women worked hard too and did tasks men did.
