TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kretz,Dale
TI  - Administering freedom: the state of emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau 
SN  - 9781469671048
AV  - E185 .A365 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
KW  - History
KW  - Pension Bureau
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Pensions
KW  - Freed persons
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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