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Title:

The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction : reconsiderations / edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xxxii, 363 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States.--Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Reconstruction--Southern States.
Freedmen--Southern States.
Afro-Americans--History--1863-1877.
United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.
Southern States--History--1865-1877.
Southern States--Race relations.

Other Authors:

Cimbala, Paul A. (Paul Alan), 1951-
Miller, Randall M.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. The 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 -- The 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 chimère" : the Freedmen's Bureau in Creole New Orleans / Caryn Cossé Bell -- "Because they are women" : gender and the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau's "War on dependency" / Mary J. Farmer -- The Freedmen's Bureau and wage labor in the Louisiana sugar region / John C. Rodrigue -- "A 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 -- Afterword / James M. McPherson.

Series:

Reconstructing America, 1523-4606 ; no. 4

ISBN:

9780823219353 (pbk.)
0823219356 (pbk.)
9780823219346 (hardcover)
0823219348 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41528197

LCCN:

99034974

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)