| Description |
1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands -- History.
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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. |
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History. |
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United States. Pension Bureau -- History.
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United States. Pension Bureau. |
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African Americans -- Government policy -- History.
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African Americans -- Government policy. |
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African Americans. |
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African Americans -- Pensions -- History.
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African Americans -- Pensions. |
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Freed persons -- United States -- History.
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Freed persons. |
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United States. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kretz, Dale. Administering freedom. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] 9781469671017 (DLC) 2022017149 (OCoLC)1322059689 |
| ISBN |
9781469671048 electronic book |
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1469671042 electronic book |
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9781469671031 (ebook) |
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1469671034 (ebook) |
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9781469671017 (cloth) |
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1469671018 |
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9781469671024 (paperback) |
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1469671026 |
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