Forty acres and a mule
Subtitle: the Freedman's Bureau and Black land ownership
By: Claude F. Oubre
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780807144732; 9780807144749; 9780807144756; 9780807144763
Subjects: United States; Freedmen; United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; Social conditions; History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); African Americans; Race relations; Land tenure
Description: First published in 1978, this work has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. The author examines of why the majority of freed slaves were denied the opportunity to own land during the Reconstruction era, leaving them vulnerable to a persecution that strongly resembled slavery. He recounts the struggle of black families to acquire land and how the U.S. government agency Freedmen's Bureau both served and obstructed them.
Notes: Originally published: 1978.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wartime efforts toward economic security for Blacks; title: Consfiscation and restoration; title: The Sherman Reservation; title: Alternative proposals and the Southern Homestead Act; title: Homesteading in Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas; title: Homesteading in Louisiana; title: A stake in the land; title: Conclusions.