Abbott's book deals with the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency that faced the main challenge of defining the meaning of freedom for four million slaves after the Civil War. He records the difficulties that resulted from the urgency of the needs the bureau sought to remedy and the issue of whether the bureau may have used its position to further the cause of Radical Republicanism.
Originally published 1967.
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- ISBN13 9780807810484
- Publish Date 1 January 1967
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 March 1994
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 172
- Language English