emmanuel dabney, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] emmanuel: i'm not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. it seems like whenever you leave richmond you need to plan a year for what normally takes 10 minutes to get to. i am certainly happy i made it. i was worried i would not get here. and i'm looking forward to our question and answer period to tackle the subject of the freedmen's bureau. and abandon land headquartered in petersburg, virginia issued a circular, which highlights the challenges that face the bureau in the postwar years. assistant superintendents, their respective counties, their plantations, and made themselves acquainted with the working of the new system of free labor. this was the many extravagant ideas and impressions among them as to their status as freed men. the property of their former masters is to be divided among them. if they hired themselves for another year in implied servitude for five years. or that the government will feed them in idleness. by careful advice en

wrap up our sequence of morning speakers it is my pleasure to welcome back and .anual -- emmanuel dabney us from south of the james, so does i 95 traffic that most of you had the pleasure of experiencing he also had to brave. in petersburg, the story very closely connected to his own personal story about this child. he began volunteering eventually where he became a seasonal, worked there for a number of years and then became a permanent historian. he has been there now 16 years, 14 years excuse me. sharing this story. the story of the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. fortunately emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront. he is here today to talk to us about one of the other enduring legacy of war, that is, the freedmen's bureau. the very question during the war is what is going to happen with all of these emancipated slaves. the freedmen's bureau was an attempt to answer that, and the manual will discuss that very complicated-- answer. [applause] i am not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. it seems like just now w

next on american history tv, emmanuel dabney discusses the archival records of the freedmen's bureau and what they can tell us about the lives of former slaves. he describes how the bureau issued food and clothing,

wrap up our sequence of morning speakers it is my pleasure to welcome back and .anual -- emmanuel dabney us from south of the james, so does i 95 traffic that most of you had the pleasure of experiencing he also had to brave. he grew up

emmanuel dabney discusses the archival records of the freedmen's bureau and what they can tell us about the lives of former slaves. help locate lost family members and provide education and legal services.

> have people been winding down -- it is important to note the conversation continues. , emmanuel gentlemen dabney. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. touringyear, c-span is cities across the country, exploring american history. our recent visit to santa rosa, california. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> we looked in the north. it looked like smoke out of a train or something. we ran into the storm house because we thought it might be storming. we had to tie wet rags over our mouths just to keep from smothering. the old-timers said they had never seen nothing like that. our house was sealed, but that dust came through somehow. even the stucco houses. you had to mount really good when it was over -- mop really good when it was over. lynn: today we will be looking at our dust bowl migration archives, which we ha