The Freedmen's Bureau

Good Morning POU! I was free, but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.  — Attributed to Harriet Tubman As soon as Hawkins Wilson, an enslaved African American from the region outside of Galveston, Texas, realized that he was free, he knew exactly what he would do. He would begin a search to find his family — a … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Familes and Freedom – The Fight To Reunion After Emancipation