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.
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