... the ex-slave states, including the border slave states that had remained in the Union, into 10 districts, each headed by an assistant commissioner. The bureau's work consisted chiefly of five kinds of activity "relief work for both blacks and whites in war-stricken areas, regulation of black labour under the new conditions, administration of justice in cases concerning the ... amendment was ratified on July 28, 1868. Southern states were required to ratify it in order to be readmitted into the Union However, the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1873 Slaughterhouse cases diluted the amendme...

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