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Book/Printed Material The mastership and its fruits : the emancipated slave face to face with his old master : a supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War Emancipated slave face to face with his old master (Valley of the Lower Mississippi)

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Title

  • The mastership and its fruits : the emancipated slave face to face with his old master : a supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War

Other Title

  • Emancipated slave face to face with his old master (Valley of the Lower Mississippi)

Summary

  • An on-the-spot report on the master-slave relationship in recently freed territory in the lower Mississippi River valley. The report expresses optimism about the ability of freed slaves to adjust to the coming new order and favors grant of full civil rights and the franchise for freedmen, but it finds former slave owners unreformed and unwilling to accept the demise of plantation slavery. The report also describes the Army employment system for freedmen and the obstacles to a free labor system in the South, and it favors federal oversight of the transition from slavery to the new order in the South.

Names

  • United States. War Department.
  • MacKaye, James Morrison, 1805-1888.
  • Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • New York : Published by the Loyal Publication Society, 1864.

Headings

  • -  Freedmen

Notes

  • -  Also published in German as no. 55 of the series.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • 38 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E463 .L96 no. 58
  • AC901 .M5 vol. 446, no. 13 Another copy.
  • E449 .D16 vol. 23, no. 13 Another copy.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 19000999

Online Format

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  • online text
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

United States War Department, James Morrison Mackaye, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection, and Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection. The mastership and its fruits: the emancipated slave face to face with his old master: a supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. New York: Published by the Loyal Publication Society, 1864. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/19000999/.

APA citation style:

United States War Department, Mackaye, J. M., Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection & Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection. (1864) The mastership and its fruits: the emancipated slave face to face with his old master: a supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. New York: Published by the Loyal Publication Society. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/19000999/.

MLA citation style:

United States War Department, et al. The mastership and its fruits: the emancipated slave face to face with his old master: a supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. New York: Published by the Loyal Publication Society, 1864. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/19000999/>.