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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kretz, Dale (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands > History.
United States. > Pension Bureau > History.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
United States. > Pension Bureau
African Americans > Government policy > History.
African Americans > Pensions > History.
Freed persons > United States > History.
Noirs américains > Politique gouvernementale > Histoire.
Personnes affranchies > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
African Americans > Government policy
African Americans > Pensions
Freed persons
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:"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 agencies. Their encounters with the more familiar Freedmen's Bureau and Pension Bureau are presented here in a striking new light, while their struggles with the long-forgotten Freedmen's Branch appear in this study for the very first time"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469671048
1469671042
9781469671031
1469671034

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