It is wonderful how a people who have been so long crushed to the earth ... can have so great a desire for knowledge, and such a capacity for attaining it. Charlotte Forten, article in the Atlantic Monthly What solution to a social problem during Reconstruction is implied in this quotation? A. The Freedmen's Bureau provided basic needs to former slaves. B. The Freedmen's Bureau laid the foundation for public school systems. C. The Freedmen's Bureau took on the task of finding work for freedmen. D. The Freedmen's Bureau provided services for poor whites and former slaves.