The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction

Book Overview

The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this lively and well-documented book, the authors discuss the diversity of conditions and the personalities of the Bureau's agents state by state. They offer insight into the actions and thoughts, not only of the agents, but also of the southern planters and the former slaves,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823219356
• ISBN13: 9780823219353
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"