Freedmen's town
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A freedman's town, in the United States, refers to communities built by former slaves (freedman) emancipated during the American Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment brought 4 million people out of slavery in the defunct Confederate States of America and the slaves needed a place to start over. President Abraham Lincoln created the Freedmen's Bureau to help out the freedmen, though President Andrew Johnson vetoed the continuation of the bureau in 1866 during Reconstruction.
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