AFAM 002B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Port Royal Experiment, Susan B. Anthony, Fisk Jubilee Singers

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Midterm study guide chapter 12 - 15: special field order #15: general williams tecumseh sherman issues this military directive in jan 1865. It set aside lands along the coast from charleston, south carolina, to. It created temporary agency to assist freedmen to make the transition to freedom. The bureau was placed under the control of the us army. It was designed to help freedman obtain land, gain education, negotiate labor contracts w/ white planters, settle legal & criminal disputed involving black & white people left destitute (poor) by the war. H: however, congress never carried sufficient funds to carry out these tasks, miller, and francis grimke among those to attend initial gathering, crummel was elderly but distinguished leader with his convictions on race, religion, and. Textbook notes: hungarians, czech slovakians, jews from other parts of europe. The gibbs brothers: they emerged during reconstruction and had political careers in arkansas & florida, mifflin became a building contractor and then an abolitionist.