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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Kretz, Dale (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (424 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469671048

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