From slavery to uncertain freedom : the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas, 1865-1869 /
As black Arkansans emerged from chattel slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, they were supported in their efforts to redefine their lives by the work of the Freedmen's Bureau, a federal agency monitoring the South to ensure that at least a modicum of free...
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Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
1996.
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Series: | Black community studies.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |