On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
Above all, nothing is more convenient than to heap on the Freedmen’s Bureau all the evils of that evil day, and damn it utterly for every mistake and blunder that was made.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois criticizes the tendency to unfairly blame the Freedmen's Bureau for all the failures and problems of the Reconstruction era.
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