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The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction : reconsiderations / edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Reconstructing America (Series) ; no. 4.
- Reconstructing America, 1523-4606 ; no. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
- United States.
- Freed persons.
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.
- Politics and government.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Freed persons--Southern States.
- Southern States--History--1865-1877.
- Southern States.
- History.
- African Americans--History--1863-1877.
- African Americans.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 363 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this well-documented book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau's agents state by state. They offer insight into the actions and thoughts, not only of agents, but also of southern planters and former slaver, as both of these groups learned how to deal with new responsibilities and altered relationship.
- Contents:
- 1 Ulysses S. Grant and the Freedmen's Bureau / Brooks D. Simpson 1
- 2 Andrew Johnson and the Freedmen's Bureau / Hans L. Trefousse 29
- 3 Emancipation and Military Pacification: The Freedmen's Bureau and Social Control in Alabama / Michael W. Fitzgerald 46
- 4 "One of the Most Appreciated Labors of the Bureau": The Freedmen's Bureau and the Southern Homestead Act / Michael L. Lanza 67
- 5 The Personnel of the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas / Randy Finley 93
- 6 Architects of a Benevolent Empire: The Relationship between the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, 1865-1872 / E. Allen Richardson 119
- 7 "Une Chimere": The Freedmen's Bureau in Creole New Orleans / Caryn Cosse Bell 140
- 8 "Because They Are Women": Gender and the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau's "War on Dependency" / Mary J. Farmer 161
- 9 The Freedmen's Bureau and Wage Labor in the Louisiana Sugar Region / John C. Rodrigue 193
- 10 "A Full-Fledged Government of Men": Freedmen's Bureau Labor Policy in South Carolina, 1865-1868 / James D. Schmidt 219
- 11 "To Enslave the Rising Generation": The Freedmen's Bureau and the Texas Black Code / Barry A. Crouch 261
- 12 Land, Lumber, and Learning: The Freedmen's Bureau, Education and the Black Community in Post-Emancipation Maryland / Richard Paul Fuke 288
- 13 Reconstruction's Allies: The Relationship of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Georgia Freedmen / Paul A. Cimbala 315.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0823219348
- 0823219356
- OCLC:
- 41528197
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