A History of the Freedmen's Bureau
eBook - PDF

A History of the Freedmen's Bureau

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A History of the Freedmen's Bureau

About this book

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Note by the Publisher
  2. Preface
  3. Contents
  4. About the Notes
  5. 1. The Contrabands of War
  6. 2. Forerunners of the Bureau
  7. 3. Whose Freedmen s Bureau ?
  8. 4. Onward Christian Soldier
  9. 5. Early Difficulties
  10. 6. Early Works
  11. 7. The Promised Lands
  12. 8. A Bone of Contention
  13. 9. Over the Veto
  14. 10. The Grass-Roots Bureau
  15. 11. The Bureau's Courts
  16. 12. Reading, 'Riting, andā€“Republicanism
  17. 13. The Bureau and the Ballot
  18. 14. The Walls of Howard University
  19. Appendix
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index