With the help of the Freedmen's Bureau, many freedmen migrated from rural areas to Raleigh. The United States abolished slavery without compensation to slaveholders or reparations to freedmen. Subordinate to the nobles we find the freeborn and then the freedmen. Caligula sold their furniture, jewellery, slaves and freedmen. This angered Northerners, who accused the state of imposing semi-slavery on the freedmen. Freedmen and slaves (wherever resident) and urban citizens did not serve except in rare emergencies. These were ranked below the nobility, but above the freedmen and slaves. Douglass was disappointed that President Lincoln did not publicly endorse suffrage for black freedmen. The amendments were directed at ending slavery and providing full citizenship to freedmen. Descendants of the Freedmen continue to live in Oklahoma. He also incorporated these freedmen in the rural tribes. Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Bill, which was to grant citizenship to the freedmen. They attacked and killed both freedmen and their white allies. This led to further resentment and suggestions that these same freedmen were ruling the Emperor. Although Johnson had sympathy for the plight of the freedmen, he was against federal assistance.