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Administering Freedom - The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau (Paperback)
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Administering Freedom - The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau (Paperback)
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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. Based on extensive archival research in rarely
used collections, Dale Kretz uncovers surprising stories of
political mobilization among tens of thousands of Black claimants
for military bounties, back payments, and pensions, finding
victories in an unlikely place: the federal bureaucracy. As newly
freed, rights-bearing citizens, they negotiated issues of slavery,
identity, family, loyalty, dependency, and disability, all within
an increasingly complex and rapidly expanding federal
administrative state-at once a lifeline to countless Black families
and a mainline to a new liberal order.
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