Forty acres and a mule : the Freedman's Bureau and Black land ownership / Claude F. Oubre ; with a new foreword by Katherine C. Mooney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012Edition: Louisiana paperback editionDescription: xvii, 212 pages : maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807144732
  • 0807144738
  • 9780807144749
  • 0807144746
  • 0807144762
  • 9780807144763
  • 0807144754
  • 9780807144756
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 333.33/508996073075 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.2 .O9 2012
Contents:
Wartime efforts toward economic security for Blacks -- Consfiscation and restoration -- The Sherman Reservation -- Alternative proposals and the Southern Homestead Act -- Homesteading in Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas -- Homesteading in Louisiana -- Homesteading in Florida -- A stake in the land -- Conclusions.
Summary: First published in 1978, this work has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. The author examines of why the majority of freed slaves were denied the opportunity to own land during the Reconstruction era, leaving them vulnerable to a persecution that strongly resembled slavery. He recounts the struggle of black families to acquire land and how the U.S. government agency Freedmen's Bureau both served and obstructed them.
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Originally published: 1978.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.

Wartime efforts toward economic security for Blacks -- Consfiscation and restoration -- The Sherman Reservation -- Alternative proposals and the Southern Homestead Act -- Homesteading in Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas -- Homesteading in Louisiana -- Homesteading in Florida -- A stake in the land -- Conclusions.

First published in 1978, this work has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. The author examines of why the majority of freed slaves were denied the opportunity to own land during the Reconstruction era, leaving them vulnerable to a persecution that strongly resembled slavery. He recounts the struggle of black families to acquire land and how the U.S. government agency Freedmen's Bureau both served and obstructed them.

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