Freedmen and the Ideology of Free Labor: Louisiana 1862-1865 Main Street emeritus professor of Africana Studies

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Freedmen and the Ideology of Free Labor: Louisiana 1862-1865 Main Street emeritus professor of Africana StudiesFreedmen and the Ideology of Free Labor: Louisiana 1862 1865 by William F. Messner About the Book This book examines contraband programs undertaken by the Federal army in the Gulf Department during the Civil War, particularly the military's institution of a plantation labor program and education system for the freedmen, and the enlistment of blacks into the Union Army. It considers the ways that these systems were created in response to white