Under the Guardianship of the Nation - The Freedmen''s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870

Informationen zum Autor PAUL A. CIMBALA is an associate professor of history and chair of the History Department at Fordham University. He is the coeditor of Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History . Klappentext The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress in 1865 to protect and provide for the South's emancipated slaves. Paul A. Cimbala's case study looks beyond the obvious hostility of white Georgians toward the Bureau to show that its failure lay also in the Bureau's northern free-labor ideology, limited resources, and temporary nature. Zusammenfassung The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress in 1865 to protect and provide for the South's emancipated slaves. This case study looks beyond the obvious hostility of white Georgians to show that the Bureau's failure was also due to its ideology! limited resources and temporary status.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul Cimbala, Paul A Cimbala, Paul A. Cimbala
• Verlag: The University of Georgia Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.03.2003
• EAN: 9780820325118
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2511-8
• Seiten: 432
• Serien: Freemen's Bureau and the Recon; Freemen's Bureau and the Recon
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges