| Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cimbala, Paul a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820325112 ISBN-13: 9780820325118 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 Annotation: The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress in 1865 to protect and provide for the South's emancipated slaves. Paul A. Cimbala's case study looks beyond the obvious hostility of white Georgians toward the Bureau to show that its failure lay also in the Bureau's northern free-labor ideology, limited resources, and temporary nature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations |
| Dewey: 975.804 |
| Series: Freemen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-187 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.78" W x 9.04" (1.26 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Freedmen's Bureau was an extraordinary agency established by Congress in 1865, born of the expansion of federal power during the Civil War and the Union's desire to protect and provide for the South's emancipated slaves. Charged with the mandate to change the southern racial "status quo" in education, civil rights, and labor, the Bureau was in a position to play a crucial role in the implementation of Reconstruction policy. The ineffectiveness of the Bureau in Georgia and other southern states has often been blamed on the racism of its northern administrators, but Paul A. Cimbala finds the explanation to be much more complex. In this remarkably balanced account, he blames the failure on a combination of the Bureau's northern free-labor ideology, limited resources, and temporary nature--as well as deeply rooted white southern hostility toward change. Because of these factors, the Bureau in practice left freedpeople and ex-masters to create their own new social, political, and economic arrangements. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cimbala, Paul a.: - PAUL A. CIMBALA is an associate professor of history and chair of the History Department at Fordham University. He is the coeditor of Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History. |