Administering freedom : the state of emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau /
Dale Kretz.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. What Is Left of the Bureau -- Chapter Two. The Unfinished Freedmen's Branch -- Chapter Three. Reconstructing the Pension Bureau -- Chapter Four. Of War and Theft -- Chapter Five. Some Measure of Justice -- Chapter Six. Pensions for All -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
"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"--
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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands --History. United States. Pension Bureau --History.
African Americans--Government policy--History. African Americans--Pensions--History. Freed persons--History.--United States