Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal governmental agency that helped the newly freedmen of the time during the reconstruction era. The agency encouraged plantation owners to rebuild their plantations and also encouraging the newly freed men to go back and seek employment. The point of the agency was to watch the contracts and make sure the employers were doing what they were supposed to, also forcing blacks and whites to work together on the same level rather than as a slave and master setting. Another use of the agency was that the agents at the agency served as representation in local and national court for the Freedmen.