Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction : an overview / Randall M. Miller
  • Ulysses S. Grant and the Freedmen's Bureau / Brooks D. Simpson
  • Andrew Johnson and the Freedmen's Bureau / Hans L. Trefousse
  • Emancipation and military pacification : the Freedmen's Bureau and social control in Alabama / Michael W. Fitzgerald
  • "One of the most appreciated labors of the Bureau" : The Freedmen's Bureau and the Southern Homestead Act / Michael L. Lanza
  • The personnel of the Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas / Randy Finley
  • Architects of a benevolent empire : the relationship between the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, 1865-1872 / E. Allen Richardson
  • "Une chimère" : the Freedmen's Bureau in Creole New Orleans / Caryn Cossé Bell
  • "Because they are women" : gender and the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau's "War on dependency" / Mary J. Farmer
  • The Freedmen's Bureau and wage labor in the Louisiana sugar region / John C. Rodrigue
  • "A full-fledged government of men" : Freedmen's Bureau labor policy in South Carolina, 1865-1868 / James D. Schmidt
  • "To enslave the rising generation" : the Freedmen's Bureau and the Texas Black Code / Barry A. Crouch
  • Land, lumber, and learning : the Freedmen's Bureau, education and the Black community in post-emancipation Maryland / Richard Paul Fuke
  • Reconstruction's allies : the relationship of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Georgia freedmen
  • Afterword / James M. McPherson.