The forty acres documents
Subtitle: what did the United States really promise the people freed from slavery?
Publisher: House of Songhay Commission for Positive Education
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Baton Rouge, La
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Freedmen -- United States -- History -- Sources.; Freedmen -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Minutes of meeting between Secretary Stanton, General Sherman & New Afrikan Leaders, 12 January 1865; title: Sherman's Special Field Order 15, 16 January 1865; title: The Original Freedman's Bureau Act; title: Bill to amend the Freedmen's Bureau Act which was vetoed by President Johnson; title: President Andrew Johnson's veto message; title: The Second Freedmen's Bureau Act 16 July 1866; title: The Testimony of Henry Adams (1880).