From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom : The Freedman's Bureau in Arkansas 1865-1869 /

As black Arkansans emerged from chattel slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, they were supported in their efforts to redefine their lives by the work of the Freedmen's Bureau, a federal agency monitoring the South to ensure that at least a modicum of free...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Finley, Randy, 1954-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Reconstruction > Arkansas.
Freedmen > Arkansas.
Freedmen.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Arkansas.
United States.
Arkansas.
Arkansas > History > 1865-
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Ch. 1. Prelude to Freedom, 1862-1865
  • Ch. 2. Bureau Beginnings and Ideological Underpinnings
  • Ch. 3. Identities and the Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1868
  • Ch. 4. Searching for Economic Freedom, 1865-1868
  • Ch. 5. Care of the Body, Mind, and Morals, 1865-1869
  • Ch. 6. Violence and the Freedmen's Bureau
  • Ch. 7. Farewell to the Freedmen's Bureau.

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