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March 3, 1865, United States
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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Record Group 105), also known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865.O

En Reference de Baylor College et Universite eau Texas:
y the time Baylor was chartered, chattel slavery had become woven into the cultural and economic fabric of the Republic of Texas.

All three of Baylor's primary founders were slaveholders, as well as 11 of Baylor's first 15 members of the Board of Trustees.

In the 1850 federal census of Washington County, where Baylor University was located at the time, 47 percent of the total population were enslaved people.

Located in the Brazos River Valley between Houston and Austin, Washington County's loamy soil was well suited to cotton cultivation, for which enslaved people provided much of the labor.

At the onset of the American Civil War, the county had become the second most populous county in Texas and one of the leading cotton-producing counties in the state.

Given the era of the University's founding and initial decades of operation, the agricultural economy of the region surrounding Independence, and the importance of the financial support that slaveholding founders and early trustees provided the University, it is understood that the labor of enslaved people, both directly and indirectly, played a significant role in Baylor University's history from the very beginning of the institution's existence and throughout the University's growth during its early years in Independence.

The identities of these enslaved persons are unknown, but the University acknowledges their place in the Baylor story

Posted December 21 2023 at 12:20 PM

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