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The freedmen aid societies provided support and assistant to the Freedmen's Bureau

Freedmen Aid Societies
 * American Baptist Home Missionary Association
 * American Bible Society, New York
 * American Colonization Society
 * American Freewill Baptist Association
 * American Freedmen's Aid Commission, New York
 * American Freedmen's Aid Union, New York
 * American Freedmen's and Union Commission, New York
 * American Home Missionary Association
 * American Missionary Association, New York
 * Americn Tract Society
 * American Union Commission
 * Arkansas Relief Committee, Little Rock
 * Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People, Baltimore
 * Benezet Freedmen's Relief Association, Philadelphia
 * Birmingham & Midland Freedmen's Aid Association, Birmingham, England
 * Boston Educational Commission, Boston
 * British and Foreign Freedmen's Aid Society, London
 * Cincinnati Contraband Relief Association, Cincinnati
 * Cleveland Aid Commission, Cleveland
 * Committee for Aid to the Freedmen of the West
 * Contraband Relief Society, St. Louis
 * Darlington Committee, England
 * Delaware Association for the Education and Moral Improvement of the Colored People
 * Freewill Baptist Church, Home Missionary Society of, Dover, N.H.
 * Friends Colored Relief Association of Philadelphia
 * Friends' Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen, Philadelphia
 * Friends' Association in Aid of Freedmen, Baltimore
 * Friends Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity for the Relief of Colored Freedmen
 * Friends' Central Relief Committee, England
 * Georgia Equal Rights Association, Georgia
 * Hicksite Friends Association, Philadelphia
 * Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends
 * Leeds Freedmen's Aid Association, Leeds, England
 * Leicester Freedmen's Aid Society, Leicester, England
 * London Freedmen's Relief Association
 * Manchester Association, Manchester, England
 * Methodist Church, Freedmen's Aid Society of the
 * Massachusetts Episcopal Association for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge Among Freedmen and Other Colored Persons of the South and Southwest, Boston
 * Nashville Refugees Aid Society.
 * National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, Washington
 * National Committee of British Freedmen's Aid Societies, London
 * National Freedmen's Relief Association of the District of Columbia, Washington
 * National Freedmen's Relief Association of New York.
 * New England Freedmen's Aid Society, Boston
 * New England Refugees' Aid Society.
 * New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, New Bedford
 * New Hampshire Freedmen's Relief Association, Concord
 * Northampton Association, Northampton, England
 * Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission, Chicago
 * Orthodox Friends Association,Philadelphia
 * Presbyterian Church, Genral Committee of freedmen of.
 * Presbyterian Church, Committee of Home Missions of.
 * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association, Philadelphia
 * Pittsburgh Freedmen's Relief Association.
 * Port Royal Relief Committee, Philadelphia
 * Protestant Episcopal Freedmen's Commission, New York
 * Reformed Presbyterian Board of Missions.
 * Soldiers' Memorial Society, Boston
 * Southern Famine Relief Commission
 * Southern Famine Relief Association Archive Grid
 * Union and Emancipation Society,Manchester, England
 * United Presbyterians
 * United States Commission for the Relief of the National Freedmen, Washington
 * United States Sanitary Commission.
 * United States Christian Commission.
 * United Western Freedmen's Aid Commission.
 * Washington Freedmen's Society.
 * Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, Cincinnati
 * Western Sanitary Commission.
 * Women's Aid Association, Philadelphia
 * Worken's Auxiliary of the Midland Association, England

 Colored Societies 
 * Auxilary to the New England Society, Warrenton, Va.
 * African Civilization Society.
 * African Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society, Brooklyn/Baltimore
 * Georgia State Education Association.
 * Freedmen's Mutual Improvement Society, Charlottesville, Va.
 * Ladies Patriotic Association, Charlottesville, Va.
 * Lincoln National Temperance Association.
 * Savannah Educational Association.

 Freedmen Newspapers 
 * The Freedmen's Record: Boston, 1865-1874, New England Freedmen's Aid Society
 * The Freedmen's Advocate: New York
 * The American Freedmen: New York, American Freedmen's and Union Commission
 * The Ameirican Freedmen's Journal: New York
 * The American Missionary:New York, American Missionary Association
 * The Freed-Man:London,British and Foreign Freed-Men;s Aid Society
 * The Loyal Georgia, Georgia Equal Rights Association


 * Source: Department of the Interior. US Bureau of Educartion. Negro Education A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People In the United States. Volume 1. Washington:Government Printing Office, 1917, pp 299-301

Additional Sources
 * Barnard Freedmen's-Aid Society of Dorchester
 * New England Freedmen's Aid Society. Extracts from letters of teachers and superintendents of the New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen. (1864)

Related Websites
 * National Freedmen's Relief Association Objectives, Officers, Teacher Instructions
 * Freedmen Aid Societies. Teacher Recruiters and Supporters for the Freedmen with Division of Canvassing Area and Location of Schools
 * The American Freedmen's and Union Commission April 1866 and a History of the Commission
 * Port Royal Relief Committee Early History February 1865: Pennsylvania Freedmen
 * New England Freedmen's Aid Society Boston Education Commission
 * List of Branch Societies The New England Freedmen's Association: The Freedmen's Record, December 1865
 * The Port Royal Experiment November 7, 1861 to March 3, 1865