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Yankee Stepfather - General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen (Paperback, Revised)
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Yankee Stepfather - General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen (Paperback, Revised)
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At the close of the Civil War, Congress established the Freedmen's
Bureau formally, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Lands to deal with the question of the place in society of its new
black citizens. General Oliver Otis Howard, known both admiringly
and derisively as the "Christian General," was given the
responsibility of defining the nation's commitment to four million
former slaves. Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to
the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen,
Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of
their own. The effort had barely begun when it ran into President
Andrew Johnson's policy of returning such lands to former white
owners. Soon Howard and his agents were under pressure not to
assist the free people, but to coerce them into working for
landlords. And yet, however tarnished the record, the Bureau was
still recalled by W. E. B. DuBois for its "bright promise." Yankee
Stepfather provides a revealing, and troubling, picture of the
complex relationship of African Americans to their government at a
crucial juncture in American history. In a new foreword to this
edition, William S. McFeely places his book, first published in
1968, in its place in the scholarship on race relations of the past
quarter-century. "
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