The Freedmen's Bureau
Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10240892 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert L Harrison (0000-0002-8348-3874, corresponding author), Robert Harrison (0000-0002-9759-3126), Paul A Cimbala |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 474 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27650184 |
| OpenAlex | W654472637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, better known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the spring of 1865 to help white and black Southerners make the transition from slavery to freedom, while securing the basic civil rights of the ex-slaves. It failed to accomplish what its creators had hoped, but its history tells us much about why Northerners and Southerners, whites and blacks, approached Reconstruction in the way that they did and why that failure occurred. The Freedmen's Bureau: Reconstructing the American South after the Civil War is a succinct summary of the agency's history accompanied by key documents that illustrate Northern ideology, black expectations, and white Southern resistance. Topics of the day, including labor, education, violence, politics, and justice place the federal agency within the larger context of post-Civil War history
Ancient history · Political science · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |