| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxxii, 363 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Reconstructing America (Series) ; no. 4
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction : an overview / Randall M. Miller -- Ulysses S. Grant and the Freedmen's Bureau / Brooks D. Simpson -- Andrew Johnson and the Freedmen's Bureau / Hans L. Trefousse -- Emancipation and military pacification : the Freedmen's Bureau and social control in Alabama / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- "One of the most appreciated labors of the Bureau" : The Freedmen's Bureau and the Southern Homestead Act / Michael L. Lanza -- Personnel of the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas / Randy Finley -- Architects of a benevolent empire : the relationship between the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, 1865-1872 / E. Allen Richardson -- "Une chimere" : the Freedmen's Bureau in Creole New Orleans / Caryn Cosse Bell -- "Because they are women" : gender and the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau's "War on dependency" / Mary J. Farmer -- Freedmen's Bureau and wage labor in the Louisiana sugar region / John C. Rodrigue -- "Full-fledged government of men" : Freedmen's Bureau labor policy in South Carolina, 1865-1868 / James D. Schmidt -- "To enslave the rising generation" : the Freedmen's Bureau and the Texas Black Code / Barry A. Crouch -- Land, lumber, and learning : the Freedmen's Bureau, education and the Black community in post-emancipation Maryland / Richard Paul Fuke -- Reconstruction's allies : the relationship of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Georgia freedmen / Paul A. Cimbala. |
| Subject |
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Southern States.
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Freedmen -- Southern States.
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African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877.
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Southern States -- History -- 1865-1877.
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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| Added Author |
Cimbala, Paul A. (Paul Alan), 1951-
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Miller, Randall M.
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| ISBN |
0823219348 (hardcover) |
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0823219356 (pbk.) |
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