It provided agricultural tools,[1] food, shelter, clothing, religious guidance, and opened schools.
[5] Laura Haviland wrote a first-hand account of an assault on Sojourner Truth by a conductor in Washington D.C. in 1865.
The same issue published the recently passed Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
[6] Seymour B. Durst's collection included Brief history of the New York National Freedmen's Relief Association : to which are added some interesting details of the work together with a brief view of the whole field, and the objects to be accomplished, concluding with the fourth annual report of the association for 1865, with statement and appeal published in 1866.
He accused the group of defrauding the public and failing to provide the assistance it claimed.