The mastership and its fruits
Subtitle: the emancipated slave face to face with his old master. A supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war
By: by James McKaye, special commissioner.
Contributors: MacKaye, James, 1805-1888. [from old catalog]; Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress); Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Loyal publication society ... [Pamphlets] -- no. 58 [from old catalog]
Publisher: Loyal publication society
Published: 1864
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Freedmen. [from old catalog]
Description: An on-the-spot report on the master-slave relationship in recently freed territory in the lower Mississippi River valley. The report expresses optimism about the ability of freed slaves to adjust to the coming new order and favors grant of full civil rights and the franchise for freedmen, but it finds former slave owners unreformed and unwilling to accept the demise of plantation slavery. The report also describes the Army employment system for freedmen and the obstacles to a free labor system in the South, and it favors federal oversight of the transition from slavery to the new order in the South.