Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen (Revised)
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Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of their own. The effort had barely begun when it ran into President Andrew Johnson's policy of returning such lands to former white owners. Soon Howard and his agents were under pressure not to assist the free people, but to coerce them into working for landlords And...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393311783
ISBN13:9780393311785
Release Date:April 1994
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"
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