Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation After the Freedmen's Bureau

Author/Contributor(s):	Kretz, Dale
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	10/04/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"This book offers [a] 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 ... new light, while their struggles with the long-forgotten Freedmen's Branch appear in this study for the very first time"--