Below is a link to check Freedmen's Bureau's records online:
http://freedmensbureau.com/
The online records contains Registers of Indentures of Colored Orphans Aug. 1865 - May 1866, notice that children as young as four years old were indentured to guardians until they reached 21 years of age.
Example: Neslin Cooper was indentured to Eliza May Ann Wood of Warren County on March 17, 1866.
Questions: What does indenture mean? Why were these children indentured?
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