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Author:
Oubre, Claude F., 1936- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78005783
Title:
Forty acres and a mule : the Freedman's Bureau and Black land ownership / Claude F. Oubre ; with a new foreword by Katherine C. Mooney.
Edition:
Louisiana paperback edition.
Publisher:
Louisiana State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xvii, 212 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Subject:
United States.--Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
African Americans--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Freedmen--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
Freedmen--Southern States--History--19th century.
Land tenure--Southern States--History--19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Southern States--Race relations.
Notes:
Originally published: 1978. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
Contents:
Wartime efforts toward economic security for Blacks -- Consfiscation and restoration -- The Sherman Reservation -- Alternative proposals and the Southern Homestead Act -- Homesteading in Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas -- Homesteading in Louisiana -- Homesteading in Florida -- A stake in the land -- Conclusions.
ISBN:
9780807144756
0807144754
9780807144763
0807144762
0807144746
9780807144749
0807144738
9780807144732
OCLC:
(OCoLC)784447350
LCCN:
2012012038
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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