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The Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery at 1001 S. Washington St. in Alexandria, Virginia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 2012. [1] It was established in February 1864 by the Union military commander of the Alexandria District for use as a cemetery for the burial of African Americans who had escaped slavery ...
The Freedman's Cemetery, or Freemen's Cemetery, was established in 1861 as a burial ground for the early African American population in Dallas, Texas. [1] [2] It was an active burial site from 1869 until 1907, supported by the historic Black settlement of Freeman's town founded by formerly enslaved people (the town was located roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) from Deep Ellum, Dallas).
Freedmen's Cemetery (or Freedman's Cemetery) may refer to: Freedmen's Cemetery (Louisiana), St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana; Freedman's Cemetery (Texas), also known as Freedmen's Cemetery, Dallas, Texas; Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia; Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina
The inclusion of the South Farmington Friends Cemetery, its chapel and the Meetinghouse Park on the State and National Registers of Historic Places is a momentous occasion for historic ...
The Freedmen's Mission Historic Cemetery is the burial place of several notable black Knoxvillians including "Caslers, Becks, Greens," teachers, the town's first black doctors, and several people who were formerly enslaved by Andrew Johnson, the 17th U.S. President. [2]
Freedmen were the freed Black people enslaved by the Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek) and Chickasaw nations. “History does not bode well in terms of efforts by the United States to ...
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The Freedmen's Bureau, officially known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, was created by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865 as a unit of the United States Department of War, and "was responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War, duties previously shared by military ...