Administering Freedom : The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau /

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"This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal benefits from the Civil War to the New Deal and, in the process, transformed themselves from a stateless people into documented citizens. As claimants, Black southerners engaged an array of federal a...

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Main Author: Kretz, Dale (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Pension Bureau.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
United States. > Pension Bureau > History.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands > History.
Freed persons.
African Americans > Pensions.
African Americans > Government policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Freed persons > United States > History.
African Americans > Pensions > History.
African Americans > Government policy > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What Is Left of the Bureau
  • The Unfinished Freedmen's Branch
  • Reconstructing the Pension Bureau
  • Of War and Theft
  • Some Measure of Justice
  • Pensions for All.

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