Bureau of Refugees

Bureau of Refugees PDF

Author: Kara Elizabeth Walker

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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"This book features the works from the new series "Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands - Records, 'Miscellaneous Papers' National Archives M809 Roll 23," named after the historical record that documents, among other things, atrocities against freed blacks during Reconstruction. These small, economically rendered cutouts reflect on the sad, repetitive nature of racist atrocities, as well as art's tenuous relationship with the real world of political injustice. Also included are paintings with collaged elements and Kara Walker's signature silhouettes, and a multipart work consisting solely of handwritten texts in which the artist meditates on the "perpetrator" as well as willing and unwilling victims of circumstances." --Book Jacket.

Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872

Selected Series of Records Issued by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 PDF

Author: United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13:

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The records in the microcopy consist of endorsement books, correspondence, and circulars of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Oliver Otis Howard was the only Commissioner of the Bureau during its existence.

Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau

Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau PDF

Author: Mary Farmer-Kaiser

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0823232115

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Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"--assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War South. Although it was called the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency profoundly affected African-American women. Until now remarkably little has been written about the relationship between black women and this federal government agency. As Mary Farmer-Kaiser clearly demonstrates in this revealing work, by failing to recognize freedwomen as active agents of change and overlooking the gendered assumptions at work in Bureau efforts, scholars have ultimately failed to understand fully the Bureau's relationships with freedwomen, freedmen, and black communities in this pivotal era of American history.

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