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The goals of the Freedmen's bureau was in overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom. Despite a short existence, the bureau played a critical role in defining the meaning of freedom for some four million former slaves. Charged with exercising "control of all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen from the rebel state. It provided issues of provisions, clothing and fuel to refugees, freedmen, and their wives and children; it assisted in reuniting black families; it supervised labor agreements between blacks and their former masters; it monitored state and local officials' treatment of the former slaves; it established informal tribunals to settle disputes between whites and blacks and among African Americans themselves; it instituted clinics and hospitals for the former slaves; and it aided efforts to provide freed people education in the Civil War's immediate aftermath. It was dismantled in 1872.

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