Trent River Settlement

 
June 9, 1866, page 361

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Generals Steedman and Fullerton conferring with the Freedmen in their church
at the Trent River Settlement

  
Note:

In 1866 President Andrew Johnson sent Generals John Steedman and Joseph Fullerton on a tour of the South to gather information in an effort to discredit the Freedmen’s Bureau. Southern blacks, however, expressed strong support for the continued presence of the Freemen’s Bureau, believing that it offered them necessary aid and, especially, protection. In one case, when General Steedman offered a crowd of 800 blacks a hypothetical choice between the Freedmen’s Bureau and the federal army, the audience overwhelmingly chose the Bureau.

 

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