African American freedmen receiving rations ?

African American freedmen receiving rations as they had as slaves. The rations, often pork and cornmeal, were high in calories, but required supplements of garden vegetables and foraged foods. Engraving from a an 1867 sketch by A. R. Waud

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Blacks Calories Crops Dependency Foods Freedmen Liquor Often Plantations Pork Rations Required Slaves Supplements Vegetables Waud

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