Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

12/1/1971 - 9/30/1972

Funding Totals

$5,130.00 (approved)
$5,130.00 (awarded)


A Study of the Agents of the Freedmen's Bureau

FAIN: RO-11115-72

Fordham University (Bronx, NY 10458-9993)
John A. Carpenter (Project Director: December 1971 to present)

To permit research on the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, the federal agency responsible for the care of freed slaves following the Civil War, assembling for the first time objective information about the several hundred agents employed over a seven-year period.