The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction / [edited by] Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller.

Contributor Cimbala, Paul A. (Paul Alan), 1951-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : Fordham University Press, 1999.

Descriptionxxxii, 363 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:The Freedmen's Bureau and reconstruction: an overview / Randall M. Miller -- Ulysses S. Grant and the Freedmen's Bureau / Brooks D. Simpson -- Andrew Johnson and the Freedmen's Bureau / Hans L. Trefousse -- Emancipation and military pacification: the Freedmen's Bureau and social control in Alabama / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- "One of the most appreciated labors of the Bureau": the Freedmen's Bureau and the Southern Homestead Act / Michael L. Lanza -- The personnel of the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas / Randy Finley -- Architects of a benevolent empire: the relationship between the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, 1865-1872 / E. Allen Richardson -- "Une chimère": the Freedmen's Bureau in Creole New Orleans / Caryn Cossé Bell -- "Because they are women": gender and the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau's "War on dependency" / Mary J. Farmer -- The Freedmen's Bureau and wage labor in the Louisiana sugar region / John C. Rodrigue -- "A full-fledged government of men": Freedmen's Bureau labor policy in South Carolina, 1865-1868 / James D. Schmidt -- "To enslave the rising generation": the Freedmen's Bureau and the Texas black code / Barry A. Crouch -- Land, lumber, and learning: the Freedmen's Bureau, education and the black community in post-emancipation Maryland / Richard Paul Fuke -- Reconstruction's allies: the relationship of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Georgia freedmen / Paul A. Cimbala -- Afterword / James M. McPherson.

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