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
Table des matières:
  • 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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