| Description |
1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE platform, viewed October 24, 2022) |
| Subject |
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands -- History
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United States. Pension Bureau -- History
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands fast |
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United States. Pension Bureau fast |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Government policy -- History
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African Americans -- Pensions -- History
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Freed persons -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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African Americans -- Government policy
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African Americans -- Pensions
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Freed persons
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History of the Americas.
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History.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469671048 |
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1469671042 |
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9781469671031 |
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1469671034 |
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