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A 7 page paper which examines the
labor arrangements which emerged during the Reconstruction period. Bibliography lists 5
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without slavery. It was a time when many approaches to labor were implemented and a time when many approaches proved to be less than adequate in meeting the needs of
the changing nation. It was also clearly a time when all the methods of labor that were previously in place needed to be tossed aside, at least where agriculture and
slavery were concerned. The following paper examines some of the labor arrangements that emerged during the Reconstruction period. Labor and Reconstruction One of the most famous labor arrangements
of the period was known as the Freedmens Bureau. "Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in March 1865. Its responsibilities included the provision of food, shelter,
and medical aid for the destitute, the education of freedpeople, the establishment of free labor arrangements in former plantation areas, and the securing of justice for blacks in southern legal
proceedings" (The Readers Companion to American History, 2003). In the beginning one of the first things that the bureau tried to do was to give the freed people portions of
"850,000 acres of abandoned and confiscated southern land, but President Andrew Johnsons policy of pardoning large numbers of erstwhile Confederates and restoring their land frustrated this project. The bureau
thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American History, 2003). Further information on this particular period of time, and
this promise of land, is further illustrated by the following: "They were now free, but had no homes or money and often few skills beyond farm work. Many were understandably
reluctant to continue laboring for men who had once enslaved them. There was talk of free land - "40 acres and a mule" - from the United States government, but
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