An excerpt from Freedmen’s Bureau documents showing Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 Freedmen’s Bureau bill and Andrew Johnson’s 1866 veto.

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Fleming, Walter L., excerpt from “Freedmen's bureau documents,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/6c0fb2e3894c4f10d5c60a9368d6a32e.
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