The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction /

The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction / / ed. by Paul Cimbala, Randall Miller.

The Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen’s Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this lively and well-documented book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau’s agents state...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Cimbala, Paul A.,
Crouch, Barry A.,
Farmer, Mary J.,
Finley, Randy,
Fitzgerald, Michael W.,
Fuke, Richard Paul,
Gosse Bell, Caryn,
Lanza, Michael L.,
McPherson, James,
Miller, Randall M.,
Richardson, E. Allen,
Rodrigue, John C.,
Schmidt, James D.,
Simpson, Brooks D.,
Trefousse, Hans L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Cimbala, Paul,
Miller, Randall,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]
©1999
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Reconstructing America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (363 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: An Overview
  • 1 Ulysses S. Grant and the Freedmen's Bureau
  • 2 Andrew Johnson and the Freedmen's Bureau
  • 3 Emancipation and Military Pacification: The Freedmen's Bureau and Social Control in Alabama
  • 4 "One of the Most Appreciated Labors of the Bureau'': The Freedmen's Bureau and the Southern Homestead Act
  • 5 The Personnel of the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas
  • 6 Architects of a Benevolent Empire: The Relationship between the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, 1865-1872
  • 7 "Une Chimere": The Freedmen's Bureau in Creole New Orleans
  • 8 "Because They Are Women": Gender and the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau's "War on Dependency''
  • 9 The Freedmen's Bureau and Wage Labor in the Louisiana Sugar Region
  • 10 "A Full-Fledged Government of Men": Freedmen's Bureau Labor Policy in South Carolina, 1865-1868
  • 11 "To Enslave the Rising Generation'': The Freedmen's Bureau and the Texas Black Code
  • 12 Land, Lumber, and Learning: The Freedmen's Bureau, Education, and the Black Community in Post-Emancipation Maryland
  • 13 Reconstruction's Allies: The Relationship of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Georgia Freedmen
  • Afterword
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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